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...

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...

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.

This novel handles remarkably the stock motif of the foundling, and the more unusual theme of an abusive marriage. (In a note at the end, BH says that each of these is based on a...

Until the age of eleven, Elizabeth was taught at home by her Aunt Hannah Lumb . As befitting the Unitarian emphasis on personal freedom and rationality, she read widely, and was encouraged to make her...

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

It opens with a breezy, antifeminist, adversarial Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend. The gentleman is hostile to female education and female authorship; his letter is based on one actually sent by Day

ME set out, with herfather , stepmother , and two eldest unmarried sisters, to visit France and Belgium.

She received two hundred pounds for it, twice as much as for the recent Castle Rackrent. She applied the genre-name moral tale, that same year, to an adult novel as well. Richard Lovell Edgeworth

ME was distracted from her writing by concern for her father 's health: he was suffering painful bouts of intestinal and kidney disease.

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...

ME suffered a blow she had long dreaded: the death of her father .

Richard Lovell Edgeworth wrote a preface, dating it February. He was seriously annoyed when Johnson commissioned Thomas Holcroft to write mottoes for these tales. Johnson, however, paid three hundred pounds for it.

ME 's father began an Arabian fable and asked the eleven-year-old Maria to finish it for him.

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