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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Emily Frederick Clark | She dedicated this book, which bore her name (with mention of her grandfather and her previous novel), to the Countess of Shaftesbury
(wife of the sixth earl, who was soon to become the mother of... |
| Author summary | Molly Keane | MK
had two distinct phases in her writing career. Between 1926 and 1961 she wrote, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, eleven novels and four plays. After almost twenty years of silence, she published... |
| Occupation | Mary Sewell | |
| Occupation | Catherine Hutton | As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH
was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in... |
| Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | BH
said she had the specific approbation of Maria
and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
for another book set in the lower ranks of society, The Blind Farmer and his Children. |
| Literary responses | Frances Jacson | Maria Edgeworth
read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ
's achievement. Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol. 23 , No. 1, pp. 81-97. 96n5 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | Overall, the novel was given favourable reviews. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 10 Athenæum. J. Lection. 929 (1845): 810 Athenæum. J. Lection. 929 (1845): 810 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Mary Hamilton | Poems is EMH
's best known work; it won her praise from Maria Edgeworth
and Mary Ann Browne
. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 38 |
| Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It was likened in the Athenæum's laudatory review to Maria Edgeworth
's anti-romantic novel Leonora, 1806, because of its similar scope and tendency and the artistic manner in which its subject was portrayed... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | The Athenæum called Light and Shade a modest and pathetic book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2662 (1878): 559 |
| Literary responses | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin
and Sir Brooke Boothby
wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that... |
| Literary responses | Jane Austen | Mary Russell Mitford
found JA
's heroine pert and worldly. Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press. 20 |
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