Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper...

ME , having left school, set out with her father to live at Edgeworthstown in County Longford, where the Edgeworth family had been established since 1583.

Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth , visiting Leicester in the year of publication, were begged by a local bookseller to look at this volume. The Critical Review remembered SW for her specimen...

ST found in J. A. Froude of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle...

It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson , lest she should not answer. The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...

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...

Richard Lovell Edgeworth , with ME and the rest of the family, were forced to leave their house to escape the Catholic rebels.

The Edgeworth family first acted Whim for Whim, a comedy by ME and her father , at home at Edgeworthstown.

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...

She wrote Ormond (120,000 words) in three months; her father wrote an address to the reader for it a few days before he died. The three volumes containing the two titles were...

John Ward, later Earl of Dudley , who had at first admired ME 's tales, later compared her to her disadvantage with Jane Austen (whose name, however, he did not know) and suspected Richard Lovell Edgeworth

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.Maria Edgeworth said...

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.

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...

The Critical Review gave high praise to each of the series. So did the Monthly, which also cracked her anonymity from the beginning. Vulnerable as a Dissenter,...