Richard Lovell Edgeworth

On the other hand she was fully appreciative of Maria Edgeworth , whom she first met on 16 May 1813. She sounded a little patronising about Edgeworth after this first meeting, but felt an immediate...

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,...

Richard Lovell Edgeworth , in a long private commentary written on these books, objected strongly to the question to Puss about the rabbit as likely to bemuse and terrify a child.

Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...

FPC received lessons from her nurse Martha Jones and from her mother . Her reading included Sarah Trimmer 's History of the Robins, Anna Barbauld 's Lessons for Children, and poetry by Jane Taylor

R. Hunter , successor to Joseph Johnson , issued ME 's father 's Readings on Poetry, with a preface and final chapter by Maria.

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

ME published Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth , Esq. Begun by himself and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth.

ME 's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth , was landowner, land-improver, educator, scientist, author, and the father of twenty-two children. ME 's youngest half-brother was forty-five years her junior.

In 1773 Maria was motherless for less than four months before she acquired the first of three successive stepmothers: Honora Sneyd , with whom Richard Lovell Edgeworth had recently fallen in love. Honora...

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.

During the same year, ME 's father and first stepmother planned a series of dialogues for children. Their dialogues were to be called Harry and Lucy. Thomas Day was to contribute to the project...

ME stayed at Clifton near Bristol with her father , stepmother, and her six younger siblings (all but the toddler).

The Double Disguise, set in an inn in England (the Pig and Castle, on the road from Ireland via Liverpool to London), features a travelling Irish family. The father (Richard Lovell Edgeworth 's...

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