SOURCE: "Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: Irish Patriot and First Professional Woman Writer," Eire-Ireland, Vol.XV, No. 2, Summer 1980, pp. 60-90.
In the following essay, Colin B. Atkinson and Jo Atkinson review the Irish novels written by Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and demonstrate how Morgan's work was typical of that of the new and growing body of professional women writers. At the same time, the critics point out that Morgan, unlike her contemporaries, combined in her novels feminist and Irish patriotic themes, while establishing both personal and social success.
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