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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 |
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| 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 | 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, 1997, pp. 81-97. 96n5 |
| 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, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 31-51. 38 |
| 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 | Barbara Hofland | In the early 1820s BH
seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford
(who believed that nobody else could combine so much... |
| 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 | Fanny Holcroft | The Critical gave this novel a detailed notice starting from the proposition that FH
had not had critical justice because of unfair comparisons with her eminent father. It praised the contrast in personality between the... |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum faulted the book as being something close to a textbook under the guise of entertainment. Young people, he argued, resent such books as engines of oppression. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1788 (1862): 151 |
| Literary responses | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey
, Dr Thomas Arnold
of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately
. James Montgomery
and Maria Edgeworth
were particularly appreciative of Ann. Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939. 172 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was the most popular of EH
's novels during her lifetime and long afterwards. Maria Edgeworth
said its humour made it loved in Ireland. Francis Jeffrey
reviewed it enthusiastically. Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010. 99 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Critical Review took occasion from this work to link EH
with Hannah More
and Maria Edgeworth
as three distinguished female writers who do honour to the countries of England, Ireland, and Scotland; but its... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 476 |
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Felicia Hemans
, though John Genest
(in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull. |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | On Hamilton's death Maria Edgeworth
wrote for an Irish paper an obituary with a literary analysis and assessment of her work. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 208-12 |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | The notice in the Critical Review began by using this novel as a peg for a defence of good novels in general, especially, apparently, those dealing with national histories. The existence of many incompetent novelists... |
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