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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 | 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. lviii-lix |
| 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. 3: 95 |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | BH
said she had the specific approbation of Maria
and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
for another book set in the lower ranks of society, The Blind Farmer and his Children. |
| Literary responses | Frances Jacson | Maria Edgeworth
read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ
's achievement. Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol. 23 , No. 1, pp. 81-97. 96n5 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | Overall, the novel was given favourable reviews. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 10 Athenæum. J. Lection. 929 (1845): 810 Athenæum. J. Lection. 929 (1845): 810 |
| Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It was likened in the Athenæum's laudatory review to Maria Edgeworth
's anti-romantic novel Leonora, 1806, because of its similar scope and tendency and the artistic manner in which its subject was portrayed... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | The Athenæum called Light and Shade a modest and pathetic book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2662 (1878): 559 |
| Literary responses | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin
and Sir Brooke Boothby
wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that... |
| Literary responses | Jane Austen | Mary Russell Mitford
found JA
's heroine pert and worldly. Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press. 20 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Mary Hamilton | Poems is EMH
's best known work; it won her praise from Maria Edgeworth
and Mary Ann Browne
. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 38 |
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