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.
Watercolour portrait of youthful-looking Maria Edgeworth by John Downman, 1807. She sits on a straight-backed chair, wearing a lacy cap with a blue bow, and a blue, empire-style dress over white, high-necked, gauzy linen.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
Taken together, ALB 's various writings for children during her career as educator at Palgrave School exerted enormous influence on other children's writers, such as Maria Edgeworth , Sarah Trimmer , Hannah More , and...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Harriet Burney
Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB 's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press.
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This Burney was a discerning reader of recent and contemporary fiction, admiring Maria Edgeworth and James Fenimore Cooper
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Hutton
Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke 's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni ).
Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
MAK quotes Geraldine Jewsbury and Maria Edgeworth , and remarks that although unmarried herself she has observed what goes wrong in marriage: she traces difficulties between couples to the demand for too much feeling. The...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Wentworth Morton
The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron 's Childe Harold.
Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-16.
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An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM 's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriett Mozley
The month of the title is that of December, with Christmas in its midst. The story is one of family relationships among children: realistic, witty, and uncondescending. The issue of child nurture and education in...
Intertextuality and Influence Grace Aguilar
The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate
Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company.
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reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...
Intertextuality and Influence Dinah Mulock Craik
An appendix provided an impassioned history of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution 's activities, quoting Maria Edgeworth on thrift.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Bread upon the Waters; A Family in Love; A Low Marriage; The Double House. B. Tauchnitz.
91
The logic of the story, by which the good the governess has done to others returns...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters is assured in tone, leisurely in pace, and deft in omniscient narration and lively dialogue. The nursery-rhyme-like opening conveys the narrator's affectionate irony with respect to her protagonist and her place in...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Lawless
Collections of EL 's shorter works of fiction also appeared, including Plain Frances Mowbray, and Other Tales, 1889 (whose title story is set in Venice),
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
and Traits and Confidences, 1897, which James M. Cahalan
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Maria Tucker
The earliest of CMT 's juvenile plays was a historical one, The Iron Mask, which she finished in 1839 and dedicated to her father with thanks for his help with the plot and characters....
Intertextuality and Influence Martin Ross
The stories are set in imaginary locations in the west of Ireland. Most revolve around fox-hunting, or else other country pursuits like horse-racing and horse-dealing. Behind these activities lies the familiar story (familiar for...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Austen
JA 's biographer Claire Tomalin lists those women writers who were most important to her, for learning rather than for mockery, as Charlotte Lennox , Frances Burney , Charlotte Smith , Maria Edgeworth , and...
Intertextuality and Influence Margery Lawrence
She took this title from a remark by Maria Edgeworth : Today is the Tomorrow of Yesterday.
Lawrence, Margery. The Tomorrow of Yesterday. Robert Hale.
prelims
Her Author's Foreword maintains that this is not a work of science fiction. The story, she says...

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