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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Literary responses Barbara Hofland
In the early 1820s BH seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford (who believed that nobody else could combine so much...
Literary responses Fanny Holcroft
The Critical gave this novel a detailed notice starting from the proposition that FH had not had critical justice because of unfair comparisons with her eminent father. It praised the contrast in personality between the...
Literary responses Mary Somerville
The text was praised by Maria Edgeworth for hav[ing] enlarged my conception of the sublimity of the universe, beyond any ideas I had ever before been enable to form.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers.
204
After reading the preliminary dissertation,...
Literary responses Amelia B. Edwards
Henry Fothergill Chorley in the Athenæum faulted the book as being something close to a textbook under the guise of entertainment. Young people, he argued, resent such books as engines of oppression.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1788 (1862): 151
Literary responses Ann Taylor Gilbert
Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey , Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately . James Montgomery and Maria Edgeworth were particularly appreciative of Ann.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons.
172
Literary responses Elizabeth Hamilton
This was the most popular of EH 's novels during her lifetime and long afterwards. Maria Edgeworth said its humour made it loved in Ireland. Francis Jeffrey reviewed it enthusiastically.
Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi.
99
By 1822 it had...
Literary responses Elizabeth Hamilton
The Critical Review took occasion from this work to link EH with Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth as three distinguished female writers who do honour to the countries of England, Ireland, and Scotland; but its...
Literary responses Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth , Joanna Baillie , and Felicia Hemans , though John Genest (in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull.
Literary responses Susanna Watts
Mary Pilkington and others praised SW 's translations in manuscript. John Heyrick (husband of her friend Elizabeth) called her the elegant translator of Tasso in his First Flights, published in 1797.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Maria Edgeworth said...
Literary responses Germaine de Staël
The Critical Review boldly announced: This is one of the most fascinating novels we have lately met with—even though it continued, we abominate both its religion and its morals.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 38 (1803): 48
Literary responses Elizabeth Hamilton
On Hamilton's death Maria Edgeworth wrote for an Irish paper an obituary with a literary analysis and assessment of her work.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.
1: 208-12
Literary responses Elizabeth Hamilton
EH 's death, as Pam Perkins notes, received detailed and respectful coverage throughout the national press, including The Times's lengthy and sombrely respectful obituary by Maria Edgeworth .
Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi.
55
Edgeworth was only mistaken in...
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld
Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling),
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
476
other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...
Literary responses Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Meanwhile the vogue for The Wild Irish Girl was immense: Dublin ladies were wearing scarlet cloaks and golden bodkins, as Glorvina and as Owenson did.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
71-2
She became (and remained more or less all her...

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