A 1798 portrait of Amelia Opie by her husband, John Opie
Born
Amelia Alderson
12 November 1769
Norwich, England, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died
2 December 1853(1853-12-02) (aged 84)
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Resting place
Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich
Occupation(s)
18th century novelist and poet
Spouse
John Opie (1798–1807; his death)
Amelia Opie (née Alderson; 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853) was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. A Whig supporter and Bluestocking,[1][2] Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England. Hers was the first of 187,000 names presented to the British Parliament on a petition from women to stop slavery.
^Earland, A. (1911). John Opie and His Circle. Hutchinson & Company. p. 180. Retrieved 29 December 2023. Mrs. Opie, an inveterate hero - worshipper, had an immense admiration for Charles James Fox [a Whig]. Her last sight of ... Whig party mourned his loss as...
AmeliaOpie (née Alderson; 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853) was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828....
Amelia lived at 8 Berners Street, London where Opie had moved in 1791. This proved a happy marriage, lasting for Opie's last nine years of life. Opie...
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Adeline Mowbray, or, The Mother and Daughter is a novel by AmeliaOpie that was published in 1804. Many of the heroine's experiences are based on the...
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Robert Haydon, accessed 19 July 2008 The others were Elizabeth Pease, AmeliaOpie, Anne Knight, Mary Anne Rawson, Mrs John Beaumont, Elizabeth Tredgold...
physiognomical observations in their writings include the romantic novelist AmeliaOpie, and the travelogue author George Borrow. Physiognomy is a central, implicit...
King, S. (2007). "Chronology of Amelia Alderson Opie". Queen’s University, Kingston ON. Retrieved 23 July 2023. 1786: [Opie] writes Adelaide, a 5-act play;...
The Father and Daughter is a novel by AmeliaOpie that was published in 1801. It was Opie's first novel published under her own name (an earlier novel...
were presented to parliament to end slavery. The first two names were AmeliaOpie and Priscilla Buxton. Buxton was born in Earlham Hall in Norfolk in 1808...
Dangers of Coquetry is AmeliaOpie's first published novel, and deals with issues of female sexuality and the social construction of gender. It was published...
beach, and directed the operations from her chair. Gurney worked with AmeliaOpie to create an Anti-Slavery Society in Norwich. Gurney visited Rome, Athens...
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck Sarah Fielding, Hannah More, Clara Reeve, AmeliaOpie, Sarah Meadows Martineau. Their knowledge of the then current literary...
Oestreicher (b. 1931), Anglican priest, and peace and human rights activist AmeliaOpie (1769–1853), English novelist Constantine Overton (1626/1627 – c. 1690)...
"commemoratively known as Martineau House" - that literary illustrissimo including AmeliaOpie and Anna Letitia Barbauld were entertained. Thomas' finances and investments...
Romantic-era writers including Anna Barbauld, Felicia Hemans, Hannah More, AmeliaOpie, and Maria Jane Jewsbury. "Dunedin Public Libraries". Dunedin City Council...
Illustration from the book: The Black Man's Lament, Or, How to Make Sugar by AmeliaOpie (London, 1826) An anti-slavery map with an unusual perspective centered...
of contemporary English domestic novels like those of Jane Austen and AmeliaOpie, and it did not meet with contemporary success. It did, however, make...
– Thomas Jonathan Wooler, English satirist (born 1786) December 2 – AmeliaOpie, English poet and novelist (born 1769) Newdigate Prize – Samuel Harvey...
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