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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Bernice Rubens | For many years BR
alternated books with film work; in some phases of her career she alternated novels about Jewish and gentile society, rather like Maria Edgeworth
alternating Irish and English settings, while gradually she... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic... |
| Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | In an Author's NoteNRS
tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney
, Miss Edgeworth
, Mrs Sherwood
and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Martin Ross | The stories are set in imaginary locations in the west of Ireland. Most revolve around fox-hunting, or else other country pursuits like horse-racing and horse-dealing. Behind these activities lies the familiar story (familiar for... |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's A Book of Sibyls considered the lives and works of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Maria Edgeworth
, Amelia Opie
, and Jane Austen
. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 289 |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 293 |
| Textual Features | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The title of the Blackstick Papers alludes to the character of the Fairy Blackstick from her father
's Rose and the Ring: she places her essays under the kindly tutelage Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press. 3-4 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Rigby | The letters touch on subjects usual to travel narratives: history (including military), art, folklore, climate, social customs, cuisine, and geography. On the subject of Russian literature, she notes how many English novels are translated into... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Rigby | The second appeared in June 1844. This instalment (as Children's Books) considered works by Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Martha Sherwood
, and Mary Howitt
. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Children’s Books”. Quarterly Review, Vol. 74 , pp. 1-26. 1 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 46 Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 726 |
| Education | Beatrix Potter | Beatrix, educated at home and six years older than her brother, was a solitary child. She had few toys; but she became deeply interested in science, and was also, from an early age, devoted to... |
| Reception | Jane Porter | The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | The notice in the Critical Review began by using this novel as a peg for a defence of good novels in general, especially, apparently, those dealing with national histories. The existence of many incompetent novelists... |
| Textual Features | Anne Plumptre | She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn. v-vi |
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