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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.
Learn about the life and works of Amelia Opie, a British Romantic poet, novelist, and playwright. She wrote more than a dozen novels and eight collections of poetry, and was an abolitionist and a Quaker.
Amelia Opie (born November 12, 1769, Norwich, Norfolk, England—died December 2, 1853, Norwich) was a British novelist and poet whose best work, Father and Daughter (1801), influenced the development of the 19th-century popular novel.
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Aug 19, 2019 · Ann Farrant has written the first biography of Opie since 1937: Amelia Opie: The Quaker Celebrity (JJG Publishing, 2014). There is also a wealth of information online too, a benefit of the fact that Opie has only recently received the attention she deserves.
Welcome to the revised Amelia Alderson Opie Archive, a site designed to make available the scholarly resources essential for the study of the life and works of Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853), a woman writer who has emerged as an important figure in scholarship concerning literary culture in the Romantic and early Victorian periods.
Amelia Alderson was born in Norwich in 1769. She married the Cornish painter John Opie in 1798. She was a novelist and poet: her novels include The Father and Daughter (1801), Adeline Mowbray (1802), Simple Tales (1806), Valentine's Eve (1816) and Madelaine (1822).
Tracing out the stages of the reception history of Amelia Opie’s poems, this essay shows that changes in assumptions about sensibility and women’s poetics whereby they came to be gendered “feminine and weak” reduced the political power of Opie’s poetry.
