Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Barbauld's correspondence with Lydia Rickards
was printed in Murray's Magazine in 1891. Other letters have reached print in various compilations: a selection was included with letters by Maria Edgeworth
in 1953.
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...
Textual Production
Eva Mary Bell
Some of her correspondence and a diary running from January to December 1936 survive in the archive of Hamilton of Hamwood in the National Library of Ireland
.
As well as laying the expected emphasis on exemplary moral qualities, she makes much of Hamilton's ardour, racy humour, and love of life. In providing a detailed account of her literary career, EOB
highlights Hamilton's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
E. Owens Blackburne
The scope of Illustrious Irishwomen is broad, beginning with half-legendary
Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers.
Apart from Joseph C. Walker
, the early friend who became the first person to publish her, CB
carried on an amicable correspondence with Thomas Percy
, whose project of conserving English ballads parallelled her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Brooke
CB
was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting
, who edited in 1796 the first volume...
Education
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB
's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare
's...
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.
Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB
's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
lviii-lix
This Burney was a discerning reader of recent and contemporary fiction, admiring Maria Edgeworth
and James Fenimore Cooper
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Burney
Evelina was influential in its general plan and in its details. Maria Edgeworth
in Belinda borrows one of its ideas for embarrassing the heroine: having someone make unauthorised use of her name for the peremptory...
Friends, Associates
Maria Callcott
During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC
) met Jane Marcet
and the publisher John Murray
.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray.
153-4, 166
Then or later...
Friends, Associates
Maria Callcott
Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox
(with whom her relationship was very close),
This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the...
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...
Education
Catherine Carswell
After her discovery of literature, CC
's early reading included many pious books: Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, and Lives of the Saints. She also read widely in...
Timeline
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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.
