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.

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Education Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
10
Unlike them, she began her education at home. She writes fondly about the rich array of...
Education Charlotte Yonge
The young CY seems to have been totally unlike her adult self: a noisy, excitable child with a great capacity for screaming.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company.
43
Her parents followed the system of Richard and Maria Edgeworth for bringing...
Education Frances Power Cobbe
FPC received lessons from her nurse Martha Jones and from her mother . Her reading included Sarah Trimmer 's History of the Robins, Anna Barbauld 's Lessons for Children, and poetry by Jane Taylor
Education Beatrix Potter
Beatrix, educated at home and six years older than her brother, was a solitary child. She had few toys; but she became deeply interested in science, and was also, from an early age, devoted to...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Sewell
Mary (Wright) Sewell was a highly successful writer of didactic poetry and moral tales for children. Her sentimental ballad Mother's Last Words (1860), sold over one million copies. A follower of educators Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Family and Intimate relationships Leonora Carrington
Like her mother, LC took pride in her maternal family history and enjoyed her experiences with relatives, especially her grandmother Mary Monica Moorhead . From her maternal grandmother LC learned about their genealogical connection to...
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
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
They may have met on account of her praising his The Beauties of the Boyne (1849) in the Nation. The groom was eminent in his profession, having written the earliest textbooks in both his...
Family and Intimate relationships Jemima Tautphoeus
The novelist Maria Edgeworth was her cousin. JT , who was forty when Edgeworth died, called her one of the most interesting people it was possible to know.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Seward
She was nearly fourteen when the five-year-old Honora Sneyd , whose mother was dead, came to live in the Seward household.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
9-10
This early friendship was crucial to her. When Honora married Maria Edgeworth 's...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
In London, she met theCarlyles and John Gibson Lockhart 's daughter Charlotte . She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake . She called on Agnes Strickland and Maria Edgeworth . Lord Shaftesbury
Friends, Associates Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
BBBD 's circle of friends at this period of her life, many of them entertained by herself and her husband at the Hoo but many whose relationship with her went back to long before her...
Friends, Associates Eliza Mary Hamilton
She was introduced to William Wordsworth through her brother , and Wordsworth visited the Hamilton siblings at Dunsink in August 1829.
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
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She also knew Maria Edgeworth , Felicia Hemans , and publisher William Jerdan. .
Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
44
Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
27-8
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
40-1
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
11
Friends, Associates Maria Elizabetha Jacson
Maria Edgeworth , who met the sisters in November 1818, wrote: I like the gay garden lady [Maria Jacson ] best at the first sight but I will suspend my judgment prudently till I see more.
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, pp. 301-17.
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Texts

Edgeworth, Maria. Orlandino. W. and R. Chambers, 1848.
Edgeworth, Maria. Patronage. Baldwin and Cradock, 1813.
Edgeworth, Maria. Popular Tales. Joseph Johnson, 1804.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Practical Education. J. Johnson, 1798.
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, and Maria Edgeworth. Readings on Poetry. R. Hunter, 1816.
Edgeworth, Maria. Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces. R. Hunter, 1825.
Edgeworth, Maria. Tales and Novels. Baldwin and Cradock, 1832.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Tales of Fashionable Life. J. Johnson, 1812.
Edgeworth, Maria. The Modern Griselda. Joseph Johnson, 1805.
Edgeworth, Maria. The Parent’s Assistant. J. Johnson, 1796.