Amelia Opie [née Alderson]

(1769-1853)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853 NRA: Opie Amelia (1769-1853) novelist and poet DNB: Opie [née Alderson], Amelia (1769-1853), novelist and poet LBT ID: AmOpie1853 VIAF ID: 39410771 LOC ID: n50006412	B/BAP: 1769-11-12 DIED: 1853-12-02
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Quaker poet and novelist; in 1798 she married the painter John Opie (1761-1807); author of Father and Daughter (1801) and other novels and moral fables.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Amelia Opie [née Alderson]: Amelia Alderson Opie to William Godwin, 5 February 1796 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Amelia Opie to Robert Southey, 8 June 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Robert Southey to Amelia Opie, 30 August 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Amelia Opie to Robert Southey, 24 November 1829 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Amelia Opie to William Harness, 24 February 1843 in Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)