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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
| 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... |
| Education | Elizabeth Gaskell | Until the age of eleven, Elizabeth was taught at home by her Aunt Hannah Lumb
. As befitting the Unitarian emphasis on personal freedom and rationality, she read widely, and was encouraged to make her... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | In December 1848, the eighty-year-old Maria Edgeworth
, who was having Mary Barton read to her, speculated that it might be by Harriet Martineau
, but by January she knew of Gaskell's authorship. By that... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | This work was translated and published in London as Adelaide and Theodore; or, Letters on Education, 1783. (Its appearance came too soon for the young Maria Edgeworth
, who was working on a translation... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Mary Wollstonecraft
, though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft
can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate 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 |
| Literary responses | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey
, Dr Thomas Arnold
of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately
. James Montgomery
and Maria Edgeworth
were particularly appreciative of Ann. Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons. 172 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | She likes her reading to be strenuous: she recommends Jane Austen
's Mansfield Park as light reading, Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 2: 68 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte
in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne. 48 |
| Education | Elizabeth Grant | EG
refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard... |
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