Amelia Opie
(1769-1853), Novelist and poet; second wife of John OpieSitter in 8 portraits
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The poet and novelist Amelia Opie grew up in radical circles in Norwich. Her earliest poems were published when still a teenager and her first novel, The Dangers of Coquetry, appeared in 1790. Shortly after that, Opie visited London where she mixed with the radicals Thomas Holcroft, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, whose particular brand of feminism made a huge impact on her. Although she published several novels, Opie is best remembered for Adeline Mowbray, or the Mother and Daughter (1804), a novel that was loosely based on Wollstonecraft's life and freethinking opinions.
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