name: Sydney Owenson Morgan
birth_date: 1776-01-01 00:00:00
death_date: 1859-04-14 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Fiction
influences: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
avg_rating: 3.16
ratings_count: 576
about: Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson, was an Irish novelist.She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. She began her career with a precocious volume of poems. She collected Irish tunes, for which she composed the words, thus setting a fashion adopted with signal success by Thomas Moore. Her St. Clair (1804), a novel of ill-judged marriage, ill-starred love, and impassioned nature-worship, in which the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was apparent, at once attracted attention.