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 Anna Maria Hall
The second series was also well received. The Weekly Dispatch review of the same work reported that AMH did ample justice to the warmth of feeling, wit and humour of her countrymen, yet she does...
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...
Literary responses Amelia Beauclerc
The reviewer for the Monthly commented on Alinda's tolerable representation of a poor Irish domestic, which character is much in vogue with the novel-writers; perhaps from ample materials for its delineation which have been...
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.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 668
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 688
Sarah, Lady Davy , told Sarah Ponsonby
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 Anna Maria Hall
Overall, the novel was given favourable reviews.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
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The Athenæum thought it was AMH 's best novel
Athenæum. J. Lection.
929 (1845): 810
to date, commenting on its eloquent description.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
929 (1845): 810
The Gentleman's Magazine praised...
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.
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, No. 1, pp. 81-97.
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Published almost simultaneously with Austen
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.
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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 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.
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, No. 1, pp. 31-51.
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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
It praised the author for her moderation in pleading for justice for Ireland without succumbing to the unreasoning bitterness it discerned...
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...
Occupation Catherine Hutton
As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in...
Occupation Mary Sewell
In her later education of her own children, MS was deeply influenced by Richard and Maria Edgeworth 's educational principles. Her children were educated in the values of thrift, self-reliance, and service to others, and...

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