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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Russell Mitford | The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley
(who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness
; the name of Queen Victoria
headed the list of subscribers. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 195 Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 54 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Moodie | |
| Textual Production | Marianne Moore | This enumeration by no means exhausts MM
's output. She made sallies into French literature with a translation of La Fontaine
's fables, 1954, and a re-telling (rather than a translation) of fairy-tales by Perrault |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | E. Nesbit | The sympathetic Jewish pawnbroker in this book may signify a change of heart in EN
(who had drawn prejudiced portraits of Jews before and who was later to depict another wise and admirable Jew) comparable... |
| Textual Production | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
edited Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda (not one of Edgeworth's Irish but one of her English novels) for Everyman's Library. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | In her introduction to the volume she writes: The image created by woman herself may supersede the one presented to her by history and society, but she remains a member of society, an interpreter of... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | The Athenæum called Light and Shade a modest and pathetic book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2662 (1878): 559 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kate O'Brien | KOB
refers to women writers here and there in her text—casually to Daisy Ashford
and Nancy Mitford
, admiringly to Maria Edgeworth
and Lady Gregory
(the latter admittedly for her life rather than her writings)—and... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Oliphant | Oliphant's views on the status of women shifted somewhat with time. She dismissed the women's suffrage petition, and represented women who supported suffrage as unnatural. Answering Barbara Bodichon
, she argued that marriage was... |
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