Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Maria Edgeworth
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Standard Name: Edgeworth, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Edgeworth
Pseudonym: M. E.
Pseudonym: M. R. I. A.
ME
wrote, during the late eighteenth century and especially the early nineteenth century, long and short fiction for adults and children, as well as works about the theory and practice of pedagogy. Her reputation as an Irish writer, and as the inventor of the regional novel, has never waned; it was long before she became outmoded as a children's writer; her interest as a feminist writer is finally being explored.
The copy now in the library at Chawton Houe
bears an inscription from the author to her long-time friend Charles Edgeworth
(half-brother of Maria
). An edition published at Boston in 1839 was entitled A...
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Bernice Rubens
For many years BR
alternated books with film work; in some phases of her career she alternated novels about Jewish and gentile society, rather like Maria Edgeworth
alternating Irish and English settings, while gradually she...
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Marianne Moore
This enumeration by no means exhausts MM
's output. She made sallies into French literature with a translation of La Fontaine
's fables, 1954, and a re-telling (rather than a translation) of fairy-tales by Perrault
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Eva Figes
EF
wrote introductions to Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda and Patronage for the Pandora Press
's Mothers of the Novel series, both publiahed in 1986. She also contributed an article to Colette, 1991, a volume...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
The importance of politics in ALB
's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth
in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
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Jane Marcet
A three-volume anonymous work appeared from John Murray
, Bertha's Visit to her Uncle in England: it is often attributed to JM
, but is in fact by Harriet Beaufort
, whose sister was...
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Mary Hays
It was published by Simpkin and Marshall
, dedicated to Eliza Fenwick
in these words: While the Atlantic rolls between us, allow me, dear friend, to gratify my feelings, by addressing to you this little...
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Seamus Heaney
During the 1980s and early 1990s SH
wrote a number of plays (and also pamphlets) for the theatre company Field Day
. In 1992 he had a hand in The Field Day Anthology of Irish...
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Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
, or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
Barbauld's correspondence with Lydia Rickards
was printed in Murray's Magazine in 1891. Other letters have reached print in various compilations: a selection was included with letters by Maria Edgeworth
in 1953.
EL
published her life of Maria Edgeworth (she dated her brief preface this month).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Lawless, Emily. Maria Edgeworth. Macmillan.
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Eva Mary Bell
Some of her correspondence and a diary running from January to December 1936 survive in the archive of Hamilton of Hamwood in the National Library of Ireland
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The sympathetic Jewish pawnbroker in this book may signify a change of heart in EN
(who had drawn prejudiced portraits of Jews before and who was later to depict another wise and admirable Jew) comparable...
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Frances Jacson
Again, many reference sources attribute this novel to Alethea Lewis
, though Lewis's biographer Shippen doubted the ascription. The work was ascribed to Jacson firstly by Maria Edgeworth
in 1818, and later by Joan Percy
