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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Barbara Hofland
The title-page quotes James Thomson , and the preface acknowledges the influence of Maria Edgeworth 's The Modern Griselda, 1805.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 366
Residence Lucy Aikin
Stoke Newington was going downhill during their later years there. Maria Edgeworth , visiting in 1818, found it dismal, filthy with coal-dust and brick-dust.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
515
Reception Mary Angela Dickens
Another Freak, also published in MAD 's collection Some Women's Ways, is reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women (1998) alongside works by both well-known and obscure authors, including Maria Edgeworth , Mary Shelley
Reception Adelaide O'Keeffe
The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot...
Reception Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village made MRM a literary lion. She became a celebrity, and was entertained by dukes as the toast of the town.
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
58
Her tiny house and garden were swamped with trippers and celebrity-hunters. In...
Reception Queen Elizabeth I
The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...
Reception Susanna Watts
Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth , visiting Leicester in the year of publication, were begged by a local bookseller to look at this volume.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott.
14 and n51
The Critical Review remembered SW for her specimen...
Reception Anna Letitia Barbauld
J. W. Croker 's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey ) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft
Reception Jane Porter
The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thomas McLean , however...
Reception Elizabeth Gaskell
In December 1848, the eighty-year-old Maria Edgeworth , who was having Mary Barton read to her, speculated that it might be by Harriet Martineau , but by January she knew of Gaskell's authorship. By that...
Publishing Jane Austen
James Stanier Clarke , the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, John Murray
Publishing Sarah Tytler
ST found in J. A. Froude of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle...
Publishing Susanna Watts
Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press .
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
Publishing Catherine Hutton
CH wrote to the publisher Baldwin that Longman's had invited her to contribute to a female paper bearing the names of Barbauld , Inchbald , Edgeworth , and Hamilton .
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers.
159
Publishing Frances Burney
FB had worked on the story told in this novel since before her marriage. The heroine had been called variously Betulia, Arietta, and Clarinda.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press.
205, 209
The final product was dedicated to Queen Charlotte Sophia

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