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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Grant | Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship? Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Canongate. 96 |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | Literary discussion spills over from the preface into the text. The Rev. Edward Marsham, surprisingly for one of his profession, finds Hannah More
's Coelebs too religious; he prefers canonical novelists who teach virtue and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Hall | The Halls describe every Irish county for their readers, advising English tourists on what they might wish to see. They detail Irish landmarks—botanical gardens, jails, factories, the recently established Roman Catholic College
at Maynooth... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | Overall, the novel was given favourable reviews. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 10 Athenæum. J. Lection. 929 (1845): 810 Athenæum. J. Lection. 929 (1845): 810 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The sketches were popular with readers. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The second series was also well received. The Weekly Dispatch review of the same work reported that AMH
did ample justice to the warmth of feeling, wit and humour of her countrymen, yet she does... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Mary Hamilton | She was introduced to William Wordsworth
through her brother
, and Wordsworth visited the Hamilton siblings at Dunsink in August 1829. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 38 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 44 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Mary Hamilton | Poems is EMH
's best known work; it won her praise from Maria Edgeworth
and Mary Ann Browne
. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 38 |
| Travel | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
spent three months in Ireland and stayed with Maria Edgeworth
at Edgeworthstown. Hamilton, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, edited by Pamela Perkins and Shannon Russell, Broadview, pp. 7-50. 50 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 151 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was the most popular of EH
's novels during her lifetime and long afterwards. Maria Edgeworth
said its humour made it loved in Ireland. Francis Jeffrey
reviewed it enthusiastically. Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi. 99 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Critical Review took occasion from this work to link EH
with Hannah More
and Maria Edgeworth
as three distinguished female writers who do honour to the countries of England, Ireland, and Scotland; but its... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
would clearly have been unable, for health reasons, to participate in the abortive Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
very shortly before Hamilton died—a projected women's periodical, which was to bear EH
's... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | On Hamilton's death Maria Edgeworth
wrote for an Irish paper an obituary with a literary analysis and assessment of her work. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 208-12 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
's death, as Pam Perkins
notes, received detailed and respectful coverage throughout the national press, including The Times's lengthy and sombrely respectful obituary by Maria Edgeworth
. Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi. 55 |
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