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

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

ME and her father published their co-authored book of educational method in two quarto volumes, Practical Education.

Richard Lovell Edgeworth published, with his name, Essays on Professional Education, which was in fact a collaboration between himself and ME .