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Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 - 10 January 1855), was an English novelist and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village. This series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters was based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire, where she lived.

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Her writing has all the charm of unaffected spontaneous humour, combined with quick wit and literary skill. She met Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1836, and their acquaintance ripened into a warm friendship. The strain of poverty told on her work, for although her books sold at high prices, her income did not keep pace with her father's extravagances. In 1837, however, she received a civil list pension, and five years later her father died. A subscription was raised to pay his debts, and the surplus increased Mary's income. She eventually moved to a cottage in Swallowfield, where she remained for the rest of her life. She is buried in the churchyard there.

Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott (Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly; Christine, a metrical tale, 1811; Blanche, 1813). Her play Julian was produced at Covent Garden, with William Charles Macready in the title role, in 1823; The Foscari was performed at Covent Garden, with Charles Kemble as the hero, in 1826; Rienzi, 1828, the best of her plays, had a run of thirty-four nights, and Mary's friend, Thomas Noon Talfourd, imagined that its vogue militated against the success of his own play Ion. Charles the First was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, but was played at the Surrey Theatre in 1834.

The prose, to which she was driven by domestic necessities, is more successful than her verse. The first series of Our Village sketches appeared in 1824, a second in 1826, a third in 1828, a fourth in 1830, a fifth in 1832. They were reprinted several times. Belford Regis, a novel in which the neighbourhood and society of Reading were idealized, was published in 1835.

Her Recollections of a Literary Life (1852) is a series of causeries about her favorite books. Her talk was said by her friends, Elizabeth Browning and Hengist Horne, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 1870 and 1872, show her to have been a delightful letter-writer.

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Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" or "[year] in literature":

1810: Miscellaneous Poems
1811: Christina, the Maid of the South Seas (poetry)
1812: Watlington Hill
1812: Blanch of Castile
1813: Narrative Poems on the Female Character
1823: Julian: A tragedy (play)
1824: Our Village, Volume 1 (Volume 2 1826; Volume 3, 1828; Volume 4, 1830; Volume 5, 1832)
1826: Foscari: A tragedy (play)
1827: Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and other Poems
1828: Rienzi: A tragedy (play)
1830: Editor, Stories of American Life, by American Writers, Volume 2
1831: Mary Queen of Scots
1832: American Stories for Children
1834: Charles the First: An historical tragedy (play)
1835: Sadak and Kalascado
1835: Belford Regis; or, Sketches of a Country Town (in three volumes)
1837: Country Stories
1852: Recollections of a Literary Life, or Books, Places and People (three volumes)
1854: Atherton, and Other Tales (three volumes) Berkshire History: Biographies: Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1865) (Based on Old DNB entry).
1854: Dramatic Works

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Total Books: 196

Atherton (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780217177863
ISBN-10: 0217177867

Atherton and Other Tales (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780217333948
ISBN-10: 021733394X

Atherton and Other Tales V2 [1854] (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781436783170
ISBN-10: 1436783178

Aunt Deborah and the Beauty of the VIllage [Dodo Press] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781409914761
ISBN-10: 1409914763

Belford Regis (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780217635950
ISBN-10: 0217635954

Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781116997743
ISBN-10: 1116997746

Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town or Sketches of a Country Town [Short Story Index Reprint Series] (Hardcover)

Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town Volume I (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781110103546
ISBN-10: 1110103549

Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town [Volume 1] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151914033
ISBN-10: 1151914037

Charles the First (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781419112669
ISBN-10: 141911266X

Charles the First a Historical Tragedy in Five Acts [1834] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781104080501
ISBN-10: 1104080508
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Charles the First an Historical Tragedy (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151312334
ISBN-10: 1151312339

Charles the First an Historical Tragedy in Five Acts [microform] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781117647128
ISBN-10: 1117647129

Children of the VIllage [1880] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781436803861
ISBN-10: 1436803861

Correspondence with Charles Boner (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781152007994
ISBN-10: 1152007998

Country Lodgings and the Groundash [Dodo Press] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781409914778
ISBN-10: 1409914771

Country Stories (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217194228
ISBN-10: 0217194222

Dramatic Scenes Sonnets and Other Poems (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217829830
ISBN-10: 021782983X

The Dramatic Works of Mary Russell Mitford (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780217754279
ISBN-10: 0217754279
Genre: Literature & Fiction

The Dramatic Works of Mary Russell Mitford V1 [1854] (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781104263546
ISBN-10: 1104263548
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Favorite Love Stories (Audio CD) → Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781522649328
ISBN-10: 1522649328
Genre: Romance

Foscari (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151244901
ISBN-10: 1151244902

Foscari a Tragedy (Paperback)

Foscari Julian Tragedies (Paperback)

Foscari and Julian Tragedies [1827] (Paperback) → Hardcover

The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford As Recorded in Letters From Her Literary Correspondents (Hardcover) → Paperback

The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford As Recorded in Letters From Her Literary Correspondents Edited By Ag L'estrange [Volume 1] (Paperback)

The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford As Recorded in Letters From Her Literary Correspondents Volume 2 (Paperback) → Paperback

Honor O'callaghan and Jesse Cliffe [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

Jesse Cliffe (Paperback)

Julian (Paperback)

Julian a Tragedy [v. 41,pt. 1] (Paperback)

The Letters of Mary Russell Mitford (Other)

Letters of Mary Russell Mitford 2d Ser (Paperback) → Paperback

Letters of Mary Russell Mitford [v. 2] (Paperback)

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford (Paperback)

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Related in a Selection From Her Letters to Her Friends Volume 2 (Paperback) → Paperback

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Told By Herself in Letters to Her Friends (Paperback)

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Told By Herself in Letters to Her Friends Edited By Agk L'estrange [Volume 1] (Paperback)

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford V3 Related in a Selection From Her Letters to Her Friends [1870] (Paperback) → Hardcover

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Related in a Selection From Her Letters to Her Friends [Volume 1] (Paperback)

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Volume II (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Lights and Shadows of American Life (Paperback) → Paperback

The London VIsitor (Paperback)

The London VIsitor and Other Stories [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

Mary Russell Mitford Correspondence with Charles Boner (Paperback) → Paperback

Mary Russell Mitford Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin [1914] (Paperback) → Hardcover

Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner V1 with Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years [1871] (Paperback) → Hardcover

My Garden (Paperback) → Hardcover

My Garden Selected From the Letters and Recollections of Mary Russell Mitford (Hardcover)

Our VIllage (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Our VIllage 1824 [Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834] (Hardcover)

Our VIllage Illustrated Edition (Hardcover) → Hardcover

Our VIllage Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Our VIllage Sketches of Rural Character Scenery (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Poems (Paperback) → Paperback

Recollection of a Literary Life and Selections From My Favourite Poets and Prose Writers (Paperback) → Paperback

Recollections of a Literary Life (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Recollections of a Literary Life 1 (Paperback)

Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People [1] (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People (Hardcover) → Paperback

Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People Volume 2 (Paperback)

Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People Volume 3 (Paperback)

Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People Volume I (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

Selected Stories From Our VIllage (Paperback)

Short Works of Mary Russell Mitford (Paperback) → Paperback

Sketches of English Life and Character (Paperback)

Stories of American Life By American Writers (Paperback)

Stories of VIllage and Town Life or Worldpictures of Old England (Paperback) → Paperback

Village Life and Character (Hardcover)

Village Tales and Sketches [1881] (Paperback) → Hardcover

Watlington Hill a Poem (Paperback) → Paperback

The Widow's Dog and Mr Joseph Hanson the Haberdasher [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

The Works of Mary Russell Mitford Prose and Verse (Paperback)

The Works of Mary Russell Mitford Prose and Verse VIz Our VIllage Belford Regis Country Stories Finden's Tableaux Foscari Julian Rienzi Charles the First (Paperback)

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