Chapter More to Morier of M by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Life by W. Roper (son-in-law), Lord Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, Utopia was translated by Robinson (1551, etc.), Bishop Burnet (1684, etc.), and edited by Lupton (1895), and Michelis (1896).

Morgan, Lady (Sydney Owenson) (1780?-1859).—Novelist, daughter of Robert Owenson, an actor, was the author of several vivacious Irish tales, including The Wild Irish Girl (1806), O’Donnel (1814), and The O’ Briens and the O’ Flaherties (1827); also two books on society in France and in Italy characterised by “more vivacity and point than delicacy,” and a Life of Salvator Rosa.

Morier, James Justinian (1780?-1849).—Traveller and novelist, son of Isaac Morier, descended from a Huguenot family resident at Smyrna, where he was born, was educated at Harrow. Returning to the East he became in 1809 Sec. of Legation in Persia. He wrote accounts of travels in Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor; also novels, in which he exhibits a marvellous familiarity with Oriental manners and modes of thought. The chief of these are The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1824), and Hajji Baba in England (1828), Zohrab the Hostage (1832), Ayesha (1834), and The Mirza (1841). All these works are full of brilliant description, character-painting, and delicate satire.