Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
LLS
's letters to Scott
show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...
Residence
Lucy Aikin
Stoke Newington was going downhill during their later years there. Maria Edgeworth
, visiting in 1818, found it dismal, filthy with coal-dust and brick-dust.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Reception
Anna Letitia Barbauld
J. W. Croker
's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey
) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft
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/.
In December 1848, the eighty-year-old Maria Edgeworth
, who was having Mary Barton read to her, speculated that it might be by Harriet Martineau
, but by January she knew of Gaskell's authorship. By that...
Reception
Mary Angela Dickens
Another Freak, also published in MAD
's collection Some Women's Ways, is reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women (1998) alongside works by both well-known and obscure authors, including Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Shelley
Reception
Adelaide O'Keeffe
The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot...
Reception
Queen Elizabeth I
The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...
Reception
Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village made MRM
a literary lion. She became a celebrity, and was entertained by dukes as the toast of the town.
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
58
Her tiny house and garden were swamped with trippers and celebrity-hunters. In...
Reception
Susanna Watts
Maria
and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
, visiting Leicester in the year of publication, were begged by a local bookseller to look at this volume.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott.
14 and n51
The Critical Review remembered SW
for her specimen...
Publishing
Emily Frederick Clark
She dedicated this book, which bore her name (with mention of her grandfather and her previous novel), to the Countess of Shaftesbury
(wife of the sixth earl, who was soon to become the mother of...
Publishing
Barbara Hofland
BH
asked her publisher, John Harris
, ten pounds for this book, which was, she said, doing a bold thing.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
39
A new, cheap edition in 1816 (wrongly taken by the original Dictionary of...
Publishing
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
This work was translated and published in London as Adelaide and Theodore; or, Letters on Education, 1783. (Its appearance came too soon for the young Maria Edgeworth
, who was working on a translation...
Publishing
Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to...
Publishing
Jane Austen
James Stanier Clarke
, the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, John Murray
