Amelia Opie
Texts
Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray, Oxford World's Classics (1999)
Amelia Opie, The Father and Daughter, ed. by Shelley King & John B. Pierce (Broadview Press, 2003)
The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808) online text and downloadable version
'Song: Yes, Mary Ann' poem from the novel The Father and Daughter (1801)
'To Amelia Opie' (1817) poem by Joseph John Gurney (Quaker friend of Opie's)
Full-text of ten contemporary reviews of Adeline Mowbray [Corvey Women Writers on the web; Sheffield Hallam University]
Criticism
Brightwell, Cecilia Lucy. Memoir of Amelia Opie. (London: Religious Tract Society, 1855)
Cooper, Christine M., ‘Reading Otherwise: The Abortive Politics of Adeline Mowbray; or The Mother and Daughter’, European Romantic Review, 12 (2001), 1-42 [not in library]
Eberle, Roxanne, 'Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray: Diverting the Libertine Gaze; or, The Vindication of a Fallen Woman', Studies in the Novel, 26 (1994), 121-52
Howard, Carol, '"The Story of the Pineapple": Sentimental Abolitionism and Moral Motherhood in Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray', Studies in the Novel 30 (Fall, 1998), 355-376
Kelly, Gary, ‘Discharging Debts: The Moral Economy of Amelia Opie’s Fiction’, Wordsworth Circle, 11 (Autumn, 1980), 198-203
Mahon, Penny, 'In Sermon and Story: contrasting anti-war rhetoric in the work
of Anna Barbauld and Amelia Opie' [on-line article]
Menzies-Wilson,, Jacobine, and Helen Lloyd, Amelia—the tale of a Plain Friend (London:
Oxford Univ. Press,1937)
Rogers, David Lawrence, 'The Irony of Idealism: William Faulkner and the South's Construction of the Mulatto', in The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison (1994), 166-190. Although this essay is on Faulkner, the discussion of racial terminology (e.g. 'mulatto') is helpful.
Shaffer, J. A. Synopsis of Adeline Mowbray Sheffield Hallam University
Spencer, Jane, '"Of Use to Her Daughter": Maternal Authority and Early Women Novelists', in Living by the Pen ed. Dale Spender (Columbia: Teachers College Press, 1992)
Thame, David, 'Amelia Opie’s Maniacs' [article on her last novel, Madeline]
Further Online material
Synopses of other major works by Opie
Norfolk Women: some biographical material and pictures
Anonymous on-line critical work: MOTHER'S MILK AND WITCH'S MILK: Accountable Motherhood and the Rise of the Child in Amelia Opie's Revolutionary Family
Shelley King, "New Definitions of Gender Codes in Adeline Mowbray" (Queens University, Kingston)