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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 Somerville | The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS
became a friend of the actress Lady Becher
and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie
to the opening of the latter's play... |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall
in March 1831, GJ
saw William Wordsworth
and Maria Edgeworth
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 15-16 |
| 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 | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 151 |
| 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 | Susanna Watts | Maria Edgeworth
(early in her career, but already known for Castle Rackrent as well as pedagogical works) met SW
in a bookshop. The encounter must have been intensely embarrassing for Watts, who twice failed to... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
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