Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Standard Name: Edgeworth, Richard Lovell

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Publishing Susanna Watts
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.
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...
Reception Susanna Watts
Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth , visiting Leicester in the year of publication, were begged by a local bookseller to look at this volume.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott.
14 and n51
The Critical Review remembered SW for her specimen...
Residence Maria Edgeworth
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.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
77
Moynahan, Julian. Anglo-Irish. Princeton University Press.
13-14
Textual Features Jennifer Johnston
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...
Textual Features Maria Edgeworth
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...
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
R. Hunter , successor to Joseph Johnson , issued ME 's father 's Readings on Poetry, with a preface and final chapter by Maria.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
505
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS published at LichfieldMonody on Major André (who was hanged as a spy at Tappan, New York State, on 2 October 1780), with some letters he had written her.
André had been a...
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME published Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth , Esq. Begun by himself and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
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...
Textual Production Anna Seward
With this work appeared AS 's Ode to the Sun. Richard Lovell Edgeworth later categorically alleged that the best passages in the elegy were in fact written by Erasmus Darwin , and this story...
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
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.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 188
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
490, 492
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME 's father began an Arabian fable and asked the eleven-year-old Maria to finish it for him.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
57, 146
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME and her father published their co-authored book of educational method in two quarto volumes, Practical Education.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
169
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth published, with his name, Essays on Professional Education, which was in fact a collaboration between himself and ME .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
210-11
Textual Production Julia Wedgwood
When she began working on her second novel, her father insisted on editing her drafts extensively, priding himself that he could play a role in her career similar to that of Maria Edgeworth 's father

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