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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-16. 12 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriett Mozley | The month of the title is that of December, with Christmas in its midst. The story is one of family relationships among children: realistic, witty, and uncondescending. The issue of child nurture and education in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company. 13 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dinah Mulock Craik | An appendix provided an impassioned history of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution
's activities, quoting Maria Edgeworth
on thrift. Craik, Dinah Mulock. Bread upon the Waters; A Family in Love; A Low Marriage; The Double House. B. Tauchnitz. 91 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters is assured in tone, leisurely in pace, and deft in omniscient narration and lively dialogue. The nursery-rhyme-like opening conveys the narrator's affectionate irony with respect to her protagonist and her place in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Lawless | Collections of EL
's shorter works of fiction also appeared, including Plain Frances Mowbray, and Other Tales, 1889 (whose title story is set in Venice), “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | JA
's biographer Claire Tomalin
lists those women writers who were most important to her, for learning rather than for mockery, as Charlotte Lennox
, Frances Burney
, Charlotte Smith
, Maria Edgeworth
, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margery Lawrence | She took this title from a remark by Maria Edgeworth
: Today is the Tomorrow of Yesterday. Lawrence, Margery. The Tomorrow of Yesterday. Robert Hale. prelims |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | The gruesome elements of the novel reach a peak when the protagonist believes a cancer has formed on her breast (a motif which KT
may have taken from her early favourite Maria Edgeworth
) as... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | This novel handles remarkably the stock motif of the foundling, and the more unusual theme of an abusive marriage. (In a note at the end, BH
says that each of these is based on a... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Mary Wollstonecraft
, though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body... |
| 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... |
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