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.

REFERENCES TO Amelia Opie [née Alderson]:

Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 9 May 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 21 December 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sydney Smith to Henry Reeve, 11 August 1808 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray, March 1823 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Alaric Alexander Watts to Frances Hogson, [1826?] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 26 September 1826 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Sir George Beaumont to Samuel Rogers, 18 October 1826 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

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)

Robert Southey to Margaret Holford Hodson, 20 January 1830 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)