Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford was born at Alresford, in Hampshire, the only child of Dr. George Mitford. After attending boarding school she published poetry and Julian, a successful tragedy. Her best-known work was Our Village, published in five volumes (1824-32). With the proceeds from this work and her publications in the literary annuals she supported her spendthrift father until his death in 1842. In 1852 she published three volumes of memoirs as Recollections of a Literary Life.

TEXT RECORDS:

1811Christina, the Maid of the South Seas; a Poem.
1811Ode to Consumption.
1811Westminster Abbey.
1811[To her Father, on the Spenserian Stanza.]
1811[To the Spirit of the South Seas.]
1812Ode to Genius.
1813Introduction to Narrative Poems on the Female Character.
1813The Rival Sisters: a Poem, in Three Cantos.
1820[To William Elford, 11 November, 1820; on Walter Scott.]
1827On leaving a favourite Picture.

PUBLICATIONS:

Poems. 1810, 1811.
Christina, the maid of the South Seas: a poem. 1811.
Blanche of Castille. 1812.
Watlington Hill: a poem.
Narrative poems on the female character. 1813.
Julian: a tragedy in five acts. 1823.
Our village: skeches of rural character and scenery. 5 vols, 1824-32.
Foscari: a tragedy.
Foscari and Julian: tragedies. 1827.
Dramatic scenes, sonnets, and other poems. 1827.
Rienzi: a tragedy. 1828.
Mary, Queen of Scots: a scene in English verse. 1831.
Lights and shadows of American life. 3 vols, 1832.
Charles the First: an historical tragedy in five acts. 1834.
Sadak and Kalasrade, or the waters of oblivion: a romantic opera. 1836.
Belford Regis: or sketches of a country town. 3 vols, 1835.
Country stories. 1837.
Works, prose and verse. 1841.
Recollections of a literary life: or books, places, and people. 3 vols, 1852.
Atherton and other tales. 3 vols, 1854.
Dramatic works. 2 vols, 1854.
The life of Mary Russell Mitford in a selection from her letters. 3 vols, 1870.
Letters to C. Boner. 1871.
The letters of Mary Russell Mitford: second series, ed. H. F. Chorley. 2 vols, 1872.
The friendships of Mary Russell Mitford in letters from her literary correspondents, ed. A. G. L'Estrange. 2 vols, 1882.
Stories of village and town life: or word pictures of old England, Ed. J. P. Briscoe and E. M. P. Knight. 1915.
Letters, ed. R. B. Johnson. 1925.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

privately educated

woman writer
poet
dramatist
essayist
novelist

The Star
The Morning Chronicle
European Magazine
The Monthly Magazine
London Magazine
Literary Panorama
The Literary Gazette
Literary Museum
Literary Magnet
Sharpe's London Magazine
Forget-Me-Not
Friendship's Offering
Literary Souvenir
The Amulet
Pledge of Friendship
Winter's Wreath
The Anniversary
The Gem
The Casket
Juvenile Forget-Me-Not
Christmas Box
New Year's Gift
Juvenile Keepsake
Ackermann's Juvenile Forget-Me-Not

Joanna Baillie
Thomas Barnes
Peter Bayley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Rev. Henry Francis Cary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Allan Cunningham
Richard Alfred Davenport
Benjamin Robert Haydon
Felicia Hemans
Rev. William Herbert
Mary Howitt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
William Jerdan
Charles Lamb
Walter Savage Landor
Amelia Opie
Frances Arabella Rowden
Thomas Noon Talfourd
Alaric Alexander Watts

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed); DLB.

William Gifford, "Mitford's Poems" Quarterly Review 4 (1810); Poetical Register for 1808-09 (1812), 1810-11 (1814); "Memoirs of Mary Russell Mitford" Monthly Recorder [New York] 1 (June 1813) 175-77; Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); "Mary Russell Mitford" La Belle Assemblee NS 27 (June 1823) 239-40 [portrait]; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Alexander Dyce, Specimens of British Poetesses (1827); Monthly Review (November 1827) 349-53; "Miss Mitford" La Belle Assemblee S3 5 (January, June 1827) 5-10, 243-46; William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: Mary Russell Mitford" Fraser's Magazine 3 (May 1831) 410 [portrait]; "Miss Mitford" Atheneum [Boston] NS 3 (December 1831) 263-66 [from New Monthly Magazine]; Allan Cunningham, "Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (30 November 1833) 809; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); David Macbeth Moir, Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851); Mary Russell Mitford, Recollections (1852); Frederic Rowton, Female Poets of Great Britain (1853); Illustrated London News 24 (1854) 369-70 [portrait]; Margaret Oliphant, "Mary Russell Mitford" Blackwood's Magazine (June 1854); Illustrated London News 26 (1855) 60; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 43 (April 1855) 428-30; Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record (1855); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); James T. Fields, in Yesterdays with Authors (1872); Eric S. Robertson, in English Poetesses, a Series of Critical Biographies (1883); Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Marjorie Astin, Mary Russell Mitford: her Circle and her Books (1930); Vera G. Watson, Mary Russell Mitford (1949); W. A. Coles, "Mary Russell Mitford: the Inauguration of a Literary Career" Journal of the John Rylands Library 40 (1957) 33-46; Jack, OHEL (1963); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995); Feldman, British Women Poets (1997).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Mary Russell Mitford:

1.	1810  John Mitford, Review of Poems, by Mary Russell Mitford; Quarterly Review 4 (November 1810) 514-18.
2.	1810  Samuel Jackson Pratt to John Mitford, 2 October 1810; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 37-38.
3.	1810  Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Review of Mitford, Poems; The Monthly Review NS 63 (September 1810) 97-98.
4.	1810  Frances Arabella Rowden, "Dedication to Miss Mitford" Pleasures of Friendship (1810) iii-iv.
5.	1810  Anonymous, "On Reading Miss Mitford's Poem of 'The Pen and the Sword'" The Star (21 April 1810).
6.	1810  William Herbert, "To Miss Mitford" 1810; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:83-84.
7.	1811  John Mitford to Dr. Mitford, 4 February 1811; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 38-39.
8.	1811  Britannicus, "On the Perusal of a Sonnet written by Miss Mitford, the Hampshire Poetess" European Magazine 60 (August 1811) 133.
9.	1811  Anonymous, Review of Mitford, Poems; Poetical Register for 1810-11 (1814) 605.
10.	1813  Richard Alfred Davenport to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 January 1813; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 46-47.
11.	1813  John Taylor Esq., "To Miss Mitford, on her Poems on the Female Character" The Sun (5 January 1813).
12.	1815  Richard Alfred Davenport, "Sonnet to Mary Russell Mitford," 1815; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 78-79.
13.	1815  M. C., "To Miss Mitford" The Sun (13 June 1815).
14.	1819  Lord Byron, in Reply to Blackwood's Magazine (1819); Letters and Journals, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1898-1901) 4:494.
15.	1820  T., in "On the Female Literature of the present Age" New Monthly Magazine 13 (March 1820) 273-74.
16.	1822 ca.  Peter Bayley to Mary Russell Mitford, 1822 ca.; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 92-93.
17.	1822  Eleanor Anne Porden to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 October 1822; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 95.
18.	1824  Henry Crabb Robinson, 10 December 1824; Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:414.
19.	1825  Leigh Hunt to Elizabeth Kent, 4 January 1825; Correspondence of Leigh Hunt (1862) 1:236.
20.	1826  John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1826); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:287.
21.	1827  Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 June 1827; Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, ed. Chorley (1836) 1:151-52.
22.	1827  Anonymous, in "The Crowning of the Living British Poetesses" The Literary Gazette (30 June 1827) 413.
23.	1828  Allan Cunningham to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1828; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 132.
24.	1830  C. G. Desmoustiers, "Lines addressed to Miss Mitford, Author of Rienzi, on the death of her Mother" Morning Journal (12 February 1830).
25.	1831  William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: Mary Russell Mitford" Fraser's Magazine 3 (May 1831) 410.
26.	1833  Allan Cunningham, in "Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (30 November 1833) 809.
27.	1834  Mary Howitt to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 February 1834; in L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 183.
28.	1835  George Ticknor, Journal Entry, 26 July 1835; Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor (1876) 1:418-19.
29.	1839  Bryan Waller Procter to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 June 1839; in L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 268-69.
30.	1851  David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1852) 275-76.
31.	1853  Frederic Rowton, in Female Poets of Great Britian (1853) 327.
32.	1854  Walter Savage Landor, "To Mary Russell Mitford" 1854 ca.; L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 438.
33.	1854  Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Note in Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:169n.
34.	1855  Sarah Josepha Hale, Woman's Record; or, Sketches of all Distinguished Women (1852; 1855) 744-45.
35.	1858  Cyrus Redding, in Fifty Years' Recollections (1858) 2:221-23.
36.	1859  Anonymous, in Obituary of John Mitford in Gentleman's Magazine (July 1859) 85.
37.	1871  S. C. Hall, "Mary Russell Mitford" in A Book of Memories: Great Men and Women of the Age, from personal Acquaintance (1871) 432-44.
38.	1882  Margaret Oliphant, in The Literary History of England (1882) 2:385-86.
39.	1882  Epes Sargent, in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry (1882) 382.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Mary Russell Mitford:

1.	1813  X, "Biographical Memoir of Mary Russell Mitford" Monthly Recorder [New York] 1 (June 1813) 175-77.
2.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 236.
3.	1823  Anonymous, "Miss Mary Russell Mitford" La Belle Assemblee NS 27 (June 1823) 239-40.
4.	1838  Henry Fothergill Chorley, "Mary Russell Mitford" The Authors of England (1838) 77-80.
5.	1844  Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:618.
6.	1854  Mary Russell Mitford, in Introduction to Mitford, Dramatic Works (1854) 1:v-xxxiv.
7.	1855  Harriet Martineau, Obituary in The Daily News (1855); Martineau, Biographical Sketches (1869) 37-43.
8.	1855  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 43 (April 1855) 428-30.
9.	1883  William Bates, after William Maginn; Maclise Gallery (1883; 1898) 63-66
10.	1897  Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921) 2:909-10.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1810  Rev. William Herbert:   Mary Russell Mitford, "To the Hon. William Herbert" 1810; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:84-85.
2.	1810  Margaret Holford:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 3 July 1810; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:91
3.	1810  Samuel Jackson Pratt:   Mary Russell Mitford to her father, 4 April 1810; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:86-87.
4.	1810  Alexander Fraser Tytler:   Mary Russell Mitford, "To the late Honourable Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, on his removal from the Civil to the Criminal Bench" Poetical Register for 1810-11 (1814) 170.
5.	1811  Richard Alfred Davenport:   Mary Russell Mitford to Dr. Mitford, 22 March 1811; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:101.
6.	1811  Frances Arabella Rowden:   Mary Russell Mitford to William Elford, 15 December 1811; A. G. K. L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:131-32.
7.	1811  Frances Arabella Rowden:   Mary Russell Mitford in "On Revisiting the School where I was educated" Poems (1811) 34-35.
8.	1811  Anna Seward:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 11 August, 1811; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:121.
9.	1812  Lord Byron:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 25 May 1812; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:153.
10.	1812  Horace Smith:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 27 October 1812; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:169.
11.	1813  Robert Burns:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 10 November 1813; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:186.
12.	1814  Thomas Campbell:   Mary Russell Mitford to Mrs. Mitford, 24 June 1814; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:218-19.
13.	1815  James Hogg:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 24 December 1815; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:248.
14.	1815  Rev. William Mason:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 24 December 1815; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:248.
15.	1819  William Hazlitt:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 4 December 1819; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:321-22.
16.	1819  Barbara Hofland:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 27 February 1819; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:303.
17.	1819  John Hamilton Reynolds:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 8 June 1819; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:308.
18.	1819  John Thelwall:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 12 September 1819; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:315.
19.	1820  John Keats:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 5 July 1820; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:340-41.
20.	1820  Bryan Waller Procter:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 5 July 1820; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:340.
21.	1821  Rev. William Lisle Bowles:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 1 July 1821; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:363.
22.	1821  Thomas May:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "On the Comedies of Thomas May" New Monthly Magazine NS 2 (1821) 70.
23.	1821  Rev. Robert Potter:   Mary Russell Mitford to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 31 October 1821; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:366.
24.	1822  Charles Lamb:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 28 April 1822; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:374-75.
25.	1825  Amelia Opie:   Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 19 February 1825; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 2:39.
26.	1836  Elizabeth Barrett Browning:   Mary Russell Mitford to Dr. Mitford, 28-29 May 1836; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 2:176.
27.	1836  Felicia Hemans:   Mary Russell Mitford to Miss Jephson, 29 April 1836; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 2:171.
28.	1841  Card. John Henry Newman:   Mary Russell Mitford to Miss Jephson, 16 August 1841; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 2:231.
29.	1842  William Hayley:   Mary Russell Mitford to Miss Barrett, 24 March 1842; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 2:242-43.
30.	1842  Charlotte Smith:   Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 May 1842; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 2:248.
31.	1843  Robert Southey:   Mary Russell Mitford to Miss Jephson, April 1843; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 2:267.
32.	1852  Christopher Anstey:   Mary Russell Mitford, in Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 328.
33.	1852  Susanna Blamire:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Female Poets. Miss Blamire. — Mrs. James Gray" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 215-22.
34.	1852  Mary Ann Browne:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Female Poets. Miss Blamire. — Mrs. James Gray" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 222-27.
35.	1852  Elizabeth Barrett Browning:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Married Poets. Elizabeth Barrett Browning — Robert Browning" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 169-84.
36.	1852  Thomas Chatterton:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Authors Associated with Places. Thomas Chatterton — Robert Southey — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — William Wordsworth" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 386-90.
37.	1852  John Clare:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Peasant Poets. John Clare" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 115-26.
38.	1852  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Authors Associated with Places. Thomas Chatterton — Robert Southey — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — William Wordsworth" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 394-97.
39.	1852  Joseph Cottle:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Authors Associated with Places. Thomas Chatterton — Robert Southey — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — William Wordsworth" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 390-92.
40.	1852  Abraham Cowley:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Old Authors. Abraham Cowley" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 36-51.
41.	1852  William Cowper:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Fine Single Poems" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 436-39.
42.	1852  Richard Cumberland:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Autobiography of Dramatic Authors. Colley Cibber — Richard Cumberland" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 267-73.
43.	1852  Thomas Doubleday:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Fishing Songs. Mr. Doubleday — Miss Corbet" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 262-67.
44.	1852  John Fletcher:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Authors associated with Places. Beaumont and Fletcher" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 89-99.
45.	1852  John Hookham Frere:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Mock-Heroic Poetry. John Hookham Frere" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 474-87.
46.	1852  William Hazlitt:   Mary Russell Mitford to James T. Fields, 14 December 1852; in Fields, Yesterdays with Authors (1900) 318.
47.	1852  Rev. Robert Herrick:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Old Poets. Robert Herrick — George Wither" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 142-51.
48.	1852  Thomas Hood:   Mary Russell Mitford to Emily Jephson, 25 October 1852; in L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 396.
49.	1852  Leigh Hunt:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Poetry that Poets Love. Walter Savage Landor — Leigh Hunt — Percy Bysshe Shelley — John Keats" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 309-15.
50.	1852  Samuel Johnson:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Authors associated with Places. Samuel Johnson" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 127-141.
51.	1852  Ben Jonson:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Old Authors. Ben Jonson" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 240-46.
52.	1852  John Keats:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Poetry that Poets Love. Walter Savage Landor — Leigh Hunt — Percy Bysshe Shelley — John Keats" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 319-21.
53.	1852  Walter Savage Landor:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Poetry that Poets Love. Walter Savage Landor — Leigh Hunt — Percy Bysshe Shelley — John Keats" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 304-08.
54.	1852  Andrew Marvell:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Old Poets. Andrew Marvell" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 532-39.
55.	1852  William Motherwell:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Scottish Poets. William Motherwell" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 540-46.
56.	1852  Bp. Thomas Percy:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Percy's Reliques" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 1-14.
57.	1852  Samuel Richardson:   Mary Russell Mitford, Letters of Authors. Samuel Richardson" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 411-23.
58.	1852  Percy Bysshe Shelley:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Poetry that Poets Love. Walter Savage Landor — Leigh Hunt — Percy Bysshe Shelley — John Keats" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 315-19.
59.	1852  Sir Philip Sidney:   Mary Russell Mitford, "Prose Pastorals. Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia — Isaac Walton's Complete Angler" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 185-203.
60.	1852  Robert Southey:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Authors Associated with Places. Thomas Chatterton — Robert Southey — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — William Wordsworth" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 392-94.
61.	1852  Horace Walpole:   Mary Russell Mitford, in Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 323-24.
62.	1852  William Wordsworth:   Mary Russell Mitford, in "Authors Associated with Places. Thomas Chatterton — Robert Southey — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — William Wordsworth" Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 397-98.
63.	1854  Thomas Dekker:   Mary Russell Mitford, in Introduction to Mitford, Dramatic Works (1854) 1:xiv-xv.
64.	1854  Frances Arabella Rowden:   Mary Russell Mitford, in Introduction to Mitford, Dramatic Works (1854) 1:x-xi.
65.	1862  John Hookham Frere:   Mary Russell Mitford, in Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People (1852) 474.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(biography records)

1.	1854  Mary Russell Mitford:   Mary Russell Mitford, in Introduction to Mitford, Dramatic Works (1854) 1:v-xxxiv.