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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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| Literary responses | Emily Lawless | The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The second series was also well received. The Weekly Dispatch review of the same work reported that AMH
did ample justice to the warmth of feeling, wit and humour of her countrymen, yet she does... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Maria Edgeworth
wrote to HM
to express her admiration of The Hour and the Man, and Florence Nightingale
said after the author's death that she had read it repeatedly and considered it the finest... |
| Literary responses | Amelia Beauclerc | The reviewer for the Monthly commented on Alinda's tolerable representation of a poor Irish domestic, which character is much in vogue with the novel-writers; perhaps from ample materials for its delineation which have been... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Mary Somerville | The text was praised by Maria Edgeworth
for hav[ing] enlarged my conception of the sublimity of the universe, beyond any ideas I had ever before been enable to form. Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 204 |
| 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 |
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