title: What Made Byron Defend Lady Morgan? (A Commentary to the Poet’s Letter to J. Murray (February 20, 1818))
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metadata.value: Burova, Irina I.
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metadata.value: Dudkina, Anastasia I.
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metadata.value: 2017-07-22T16:38:21Z
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metadata.value: 2017-07-22T16:38:21Z
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metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.value: Burova I. I., Dudkina A. I. What Made Byron Defend Lady Morgan? (A Commentary to the Poet’s Letter to J. Murray (February 20, 1818)). Vestnik SPbSU. Language and Literature, 2017, vol. 14, issue 2, pp. 171–178.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7011
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metadata.value: The article attempts to provide an explanation of Lord Byron’s disapproval of John Murray’s cruel treatment
  of Lady Morgan, which was clearly expressed in the poet’s letter of February 20, 1818. Accusing
  the famous publisher of his ungentlemanly callousness, Byron alluded to a harsh review of “France” (1817) by Lady Morgan in the “Quarterly review” launched by Murray in 1809 and famous for its
  aggressive critical essays on the most celebrated authors of the early 19th century. Lady Morgan was
  known as an author of some essays, poems and a couple of novels but her literary achievements were
  much more modest than those of either P. B. Shelley or M. Shelley or other first-magnitude authors
  severely criticized in the “Quarterly review”, so the anonymous reviewer’s partial attention to her work
  on France after the Bourbon Restoration meant that the book contained something more than a petticoat
  gossip collection. The analysis of “France” by Lady Morgan and its perception by British and
  French critics makes it fair to assume the pro-Irish trendiness of the text, namely an attempt to compare
  and contrast the life of French and Irish peasants, was the major cause for the attack on the author
  and her book in Britain. Byron shared Lady Morgan’s concern about the situation in Ireland and remained
  interested in the Irish question after the Act of Union 1800 even after the curtain had fallen on
  his official political career, so it is reasonable to suppose that his defence of the author of “France” came
  out from their common political ground as well as from the poet’s personal negative experience of being
  zoilised for his “Hours of Idleness” in the “Edinburgh review” a decade earlier. Refs 19.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: George Gordon Byron
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sidney Owenson
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metadata.value: Lady Morgan
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Murrey
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Bourbon Restoration in France
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “Quarterly Review”
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metadata.value: unfair literary criticism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Irish Question after the 1800 Act of Union
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: What Made Byron Defend Lady Morgan? (A Commentary to the Poet’s Letter to J. Murray (February 20, 1818))
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