Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and the Politics of Style Todd W. Kent North American Review

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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and the Politics of Style Todd W. Kent North American ReviewRecently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). In this work, Dr. Donovan contextualises an important yet relatively neglected author by analysing an emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship; the criticism was not without some basis, since Owenson was an actor's daughter and grew up in the company of travelling performers. The study includes