Article: "THE STORY OF THE PINEAPPLE": SENTIMENTAL ABOLITIONISM AND MORAL MOTHERHOOD IN AMELIA OPIE'S ADELINE MOWBRAY.

Although a conversion to Quakerism in the 1820s curbed her writing career, Amelia Alderson Opie (1769-1853) was throughout her life celebrated as an author of poetry and of numerous popular "tales" ranging in length from a few pages to multiple volumes.(1) The daughter of James Alderson, an eminent Norwich physician and practicing Unitarian, Opie was long and famously active in artistic and intellectual circles of Norwich and London, especially those circles associated toward the end of the eighteenth century with rational Dissent. Thanks to her connections to Dissent, in general, but especially to the Society of Friends (her closest attachment was to the Gurneys, a large ...

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