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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 | Author name Sort ascending | 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth
, William Wordsworth
, and Thomas Carlyle
. |
| Publishing | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Education | Anna Sewell | For most of her childhood, AS
was educated at home by her mother, as the Sewell family could not afford formal training for either of the children. Mary Sewell
believed strongly in the Edgeworth
s'... |
| Occupation | Mary Sewell | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sewell | MS
used this book in the religious training of her children. It was written entirely in one-syllable words. She hoped writing the book would enable her to purchase Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth
(and her... |
| Textual Features | Mary Sewell | MS
follows in the tradition of Hannah More
's Cheap Repository Tracts, and is perhaps also indebted to Mary Leadbeater
's Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry. Maria Edgeworth
's writing for children was also a significant influence. |
| 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 |
| Dedications | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
's first novel, A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners, was licensed: it appeared anonymously that year, with a title-page stanza from Robert Burns
, dedicated to Maria Edgeworth
. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White. prelims Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, p. various pages. xxxv |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Closest to CMS
were her siblings and their spouses, several of whom were also published authors. The Sedgwick family and Fanny Kemble
were apparently the inner circle of the literary scene in the Berkshires,... |
| Textual Features | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | In her dedication to Edgeworth
, CMS
mentions with admiration the Irish writer's eminent services in the great cause of human virtue and improvement. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White. prelims |
| Literary responses | Caroline Scott | The Athenæum reviewer judged the best parts of this novel to be the portraits of Trevelyan, his admirable sister, and his appalling wife. It quoted several passages of dialogue, singling out for praise the unfounded... |
| 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... |
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