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 Features | Elizabeth Hervey | It is variously and descriptively set in Wales (where it opens near the mountains of Snowdon and Penmaenmawr), Ireland, and South Carolina, where Ned's adventures begin with landing at Charlestown (or Charleston)... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | The stories are eventful as well as didactic (incidents range from natural disaster and piracy to child heroism and the death of a baby). They typically feature sudden adversity, which snatches children from a familiar... |
Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | As well as laying the expected emphasis on exemplary moral qualities, she makes much of Hamilton's ardour, racy humour, and love of life. In providing a detailed account of her literary career, EOB
highlights Hamilton's... |
Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Thomson
, and the preface acknowledges the influence of Maria Edgeworth
's The Modern Griselda, 1805. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 366 |
Textual Features | Mary Sewell | MS
follows in the tradition of Hannah More
's Cheap Repository Tracts, and is perhaps also indebted to Mary Leadbeater
's Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry. Maria Edgeworth
's writing for children was also a significant influence. |
Textual Features | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The title of the Blackstick Papers alludes to the character of the Fairy Blackstick from her father
's Rose and the Ring: she places her essays under the kindly tutelage Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press. 3-4 |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | The essay Jane Austen: Novelist of a Changing Society effectively illustrates QDL
's major critical interests, values, and methodology. It argues that in her life and writing, Jane Austen is a moralist, but one whose... |
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 | L. E. L. | The novel also has a strong political element. It comments on the power of newspapers in national life, through reporting and editorials but also through advertising. Mr Delawarr is, says literary historian Edward Copeland, a... |
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 | 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 | 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 | Lady Louisa Stuart |
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