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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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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