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.
Watercolour portrait of youthful-looking Maria Edgeworth by John Downman, 1807. She sits on a straight-backed chair, wearing a lacy cap with a blue bow, and a blue, empire-style dress over white, high-necked, gauzy linen.

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Textual Production Maggie Gee
MG was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday...
Textual Production Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
ENC edited Maria Edgeworth 's Belinda (not one of Edgeworth's Irish but one of her English novels) for Everyman's Library.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Elizabeth Rigby
The second appeared in June 1844. This instalment (as Children's Books) considered works by Maria Edgeworth , Mary Martha Sherwood , and Mary Howitt .
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Children’s Books”. Quarterly Review, Vol.
74
, pp. 1-26.
1
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
46
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
1: 726
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Textual Production Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen inferior to Charlotte Brontë , accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR 's A Book of Sibyls considered the lives and works of Anna Letitia Barbauld , Maria Edgeworth , Amelia Opie , and Jane Austen .
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
289
Textual Production Mary Leadbeater
It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth , who did not know ML very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library copy is one presented by Edgeworth to...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
293
Textual Production Stella Gibbons
She dedicated the novel to Brenda Bennet and Stella Crow , two old friends from North London Collegiate School . The frontispiece quotes Maria Edgeworth 's Leonora.
Gibbons, Stella. The Bachelor. Dodd, Mead.
prelims
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
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Textual Production Christian Isobel Johnstone
She published this anonymously. Another edition of the same year has the Edinburgh imprint only. She claims that the first half of the work was set up in print before she had seen Scott 's...
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
She altered the magazine's policy, reviewing Mary Brunton 's Self-Control, and then Maria Edgeworth 's Tales, I forget which series,
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
1: 203
although until then it had not been customary in that work...
Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
In an Author's NoteNRS tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney , Miss Edgeworth , Mrs Sherwood and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her...
Textual Features Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes Byron pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul.
Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews.
title-page
A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume
Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews.
iii
by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...
Textual Features Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS drew information for her stories from the narratives of Josiah Henson and Henry Bibb .
That she later wrote an introduction to the 1858 edition of Henson's 1849 narrative of slavery is an example...
Textual Features Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...

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