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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On the other hand she was fully appreciative of Maria Edgeworth
, whom she first met on 16 May 1813. She sounded a little patronising about Edgeworth after this first meeting, but felt an immediate... |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Lady Cork
, and painters James Northcote
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxvii |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry
and Anne Grant
in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
met Maria Edgeworth
, who was twenty-four years her junior. They spent time together at Clifton the following month, but Barbauld declined the Edgeworths' invitation to Ireland. Le Breton, Anna Letitia. Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including Letters and Notices of her Family and Friends. George Bell and Sons. 84 McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 399 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | From childhood MAS
had the opportunity of contact with remarkable people. At Birmingham she learned through a Miss de Luc the extraordinary story of Thomas Day
and his attempts to educate one of two girls... |
| Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
first met both Maria Edgeworth
(with whom her friendship had begun two years earlier, when Edgeworth wrote to her in praise of A Simple Story) and Germaine de Staël
. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 159-61 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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