Maria Edgeworth

01 January 1768 - 22 May 1849

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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Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Taken together, ALB 's various writings for children during her career as educator at Palgrave School exerted enormous influence on other children's writers, such as Maria Edgeworth , Sarah Trimmer , Hannah More , and...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Burney	Evelina was influential in its general plan and in its details. Maria Edgeworth in Belinda borrows one of its ideas for embarrassing the heroine: having someone make unauthorised use of her name for the peremptory...
Intertextuality and Influence	Sarah Harriet Burney	Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB 's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families. Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997. lviii-lix This Burney was a discerning reader of recent and contemporary fiction, admiring Maria Edgeworth and James Fenimore Cooper
Intertextuality and Influence	Jane Loudon	The two stories appear to be based on fact, since Agnes Merton's father is a horticulturalist on a jaunt into the country to inspect rare plants. The first story contrasts the prudent and the rash...
Intertextuality and Influence	Catherine Hutton	Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke 's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni ). Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819, 3 vols. 3: 95
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Ann Kelty	MAK quotes Geraldine Jewsbury and Maria Edgeworth , and remarks that although unmarried herself she has observed what goes wrong in marriage: she traces difficulties between couples to the demand for too much feeling. The...
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, 1891. 13 reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...
Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte Smith	Sales were unexpectedly brisk. Reviews were positive and most emphasised that the stories here were true. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2005, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxxvi The Critical Review, however, thought they would be equally interesting whether they should turn out to be...
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	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, 1975, pp. 5-16. 12 An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM 's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...
Literary responses	Frances Jacson	The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 1 (1812): 668 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 688 Sarah, Lady Davy , told Sarah Ponsonby
Literary responses	Amelia Opie	AO 's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly notes that when they were new they commanded among the...
Literary responses	Emily Lawless	The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of...
Literary responses	Jane Austen	Mary Russell Mitford found JA 's heroine pert and worldly. qtd. in Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 20 Jane, Lady Davy (wife of the eminent scientist), who confessed that with an exception for Maria Edgeworth she preferred old favourites to new...
Literary responses	Harriet Martineau	Maria Edgeworth wrote to HM to express her admiration of The Hour and the Man, and Florence Nightingale said after the author's death that she had read it repeatedly and considered it the finest...

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