Maria Edgeworth

01 January 1768 - 22 May 1849

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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Family and Intimate relationships	Susanna Moodie	A son arrived in August 1834, named for his father but called Dunbar . SM had seven children in eleven years; all were difficult pregnancies and births. One of SM 's midwives (besides her sister
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...
Education	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney , Maria Edgeworth , Elizabeth Hamilton ,...
Wealth and Poverty	Mary Russell Mitford	The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley (who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness ; the name of Queen Victoria headed the list of subscribers. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 195 Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 54 It...
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...
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.
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:...
Education	Medbh McGuckian	At university, she was taught by Seamus Heaney , and met other poets including Michael Longley , Paul Muldoon , and Ciaran Carson . Her MA thesis on Irish nineteenth-century writers and Gothic fiction dealt...
Friends, Associates	Harriet Martineau	HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...
Literary responses	Harriet Martineau	The Athenæum gave this almost a full-page review (far more than it had yet accorded any of the Illustrations). It compared HM 's work in detail with that of Sir Walter Scott and more...
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...
Textual Features	Harriet Martineau	The stories are eventful as well as didactic (incidents range from natural disaster and piracy to child heroism and the death of a baby). They typically feature sudden adversity, which snatches children from a familiar...
Textual Features	Harriet Martineau	Critic Linda H. Peterson places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna . Instead...
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...
Textual Production	Jane Marcet	A three-volume anonymous work appeared from John Murray , Bertha's Visit to her Uncle in England: it is often attributed to JM , but is in fact by Harriet Beaufort , whose sister was...

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