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.
Watercolour portrait of youthful-looking Maria Edgeworth by John Downman, 1807. She sits on a straight-backed chair, wearing a lacy cap with a blue bow, and a blue, empire-style dress over white, high-necked, gauzy linen.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lydia Howard Sigourney
On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle
Friends, Associates Mary Berry
Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...
Friends, Associates Barbara Hofland
BH retained at least one life-long friendship from her Sheffield or Attercliffe days: with the poet and novelist Sarah Pearson , who had been her neighbour there. Pearson's will charged Hofland with the task of...
Friends, Associates Frances Jacson
Maria Edgeworth , when she met both sisters in November 1818, personally preferred Maria, though she admired Frances's writing.
qtd. in
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 1990, pp. 301-17.
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Friends, Associates Eliza Fletcher
Joanna Baillie (a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF , and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 699
At first meeting, Fletcher did not...
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, 1995.
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Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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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, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 31-51.
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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, 1 Mar.–31 May 1995, pp. 31-51.
44
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 Fredrika Bremer
FB's lifelong friendship with Per Böklin survived her refusal of his hand and his marriage to someone else. The influence he had on her thinking was shared by Stina, Countess Sommerhielm , and the academic...
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.
qtd. in
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 1990, pp. 301-17.
307n13
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 Catharine Parr Traill
After arriving in Peterborough, CPT became a close friend of Frances Stewart , an Irish-born chronicler of pioneer life who was related by marriage to Maria Edgeworth .
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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Friends, Associates Charlotte Brooke
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...
Friends, Associates Mary Leadbeater
While in England ML visited Edmund Burke at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786...
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, 1974.
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McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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