Maria Edgeworth
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Standard Name: Edgeworth, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Edgeworth
Pseudonym: M. E.
Pseudonym: M. R. I. A.
ME
wrote, during the late eighteenth century and especially the early nineteenth century, long and short fiction for adults and children, as well as works about the theory and practice of pedagogy. Her reputation as an Irish writer, and as the inventor of the regional novel, has never waned; it was long before she became outmoded as a children's writer; her interest as a feminist writer is finally being explored.
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Textual Production | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
edited Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda (not one of Edgeworth's Irish but one of her English novels) for Everyman's Library. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Maggie Gee | MG
was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University
magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Rigby | The second appeared in June 1844. This instalment (as Children's Books) considered works by Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Martha Sherwood
, and Mary Howitt
. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Children’s Books”. Quarterly Review, Vol. 74 , pp. 1-26. 1 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 46 Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 726 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's A Book of Sibyls considered the lives and works of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Maria Edgeworth
, Amelia Opie
, and Jane Austen
. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 289 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:... |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 293 |
Textual Production | Mary Leadbeater | It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth
, who did not know ML
very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library
copy is one presented by Edgeworth to... |
Textual Production | Stella Gibbons | She dedicated the novel to Brenda Bennet
and Stella Crow
, two old friends from North London Collegiate School
. The frontispiece quotes Maria Edgeworth
's Leonora. Gibbons, Stella. The Bachelor. Dodd, Mead. prelims Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 28 |
Textual Production | Christian Isobel Johnstone | She published this anonymously. Another edition of the same year has the Edinburgh imprint only. She claims that the first half of the work was set up in print before she had seen Scott
's... |
Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | In an Author's NoteNRS
tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney
, Miss Edgeworth
, Mrs Sherwood
and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her... |
Textual Production | Ann Taylor Gilbert | She altered the magazine's policy, reviewing Mary Brunton
's Self-Control, and then Maria Edgeworth
's Tales, I forget which series, Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 1: 203 |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | The title-page quotes Byron
pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. title-page Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews. iii |
Textual Features | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
drew information for her stories from the narratives of Josiah Henson
and Henry Bibb
. That she later wrote an introduction to the 1858 edition of Henson's 1849 narrative of slavery is an example... |
Textual Features | Iza Duffus Hardy | Fitzallan first mesmerises Eileen Dundas in a harmless, social situation, but eventually puts her in a trance and has her kill Geoffrey Carresford, whom she loves and is expected to marry, and who has penetrated... |
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