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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Yonge
CM's preface (dated March 1870) says that as a child she preferred the inherited books of the former generation to any moderns except Maria Edgeworth .
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan.
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She mentions two imitations (by Mary Martha Sherwood
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emily Lawless
Lawless is keen to treat Edgeworth as an Irish author, noting her appropriation so far by the English. All of her biographers have, so far as my researches have gone, been English; consequently, the more...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Rigby
The letters touch on subjects usual to travel narratives: history (including military), art, folklore, climate, social customs, cuisine, and geography. On the subject of Russian literature, she notes how many English novels are translated into...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. Owens Blackburne
The scope of Illustrious Irishwomen is broad, beginning with half-legendary
Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers.
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figures such as Queen Macha and Saint Brigit , and ending with near-contemporary Irishwomen such as Maria Edgeworth , Catherine Hayes , and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
In her introduction to the volume she writes: The image created by woman herself may supersede the one presented to her by history and society, but she remains a member of society, an interpreter of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kate O'Brien
KOB refers to women writers here and there in her text—casually to Daisy Ashford and Nancy Mitford , admiringly to Maria Edgeworth and Lady Gregory (the latter admittedly for her life rather than her writings)—and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Vernon Lee
In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lydia Howard Sigourney
Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant's views on the status of women shifted somewhat with time. She dismissed the women's suffrage petition, and represented women who supported suffrage as unnatural. Answering Barbara Bodichon , she argued that marriage was...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic...
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...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
This is not to be confused with an anoymous publication bearing the same title, also in three volumes, published by Henry Colburn in 1810 as (by implication) a sequel to Maria Edgeworth 's Tales of...
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Production Julia Wedgwood
When she began working on her second novel, her father insisted on editing her drafts extensively, priding himself that he could play a role in her career similar to that of Maria Edgeworth 's father

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Texts

Edgeworth, Maria. Orlandino. W. and R. Chambers, 1848.
Edgeworth, Maria. Patronage. Baldwin and Cradock, 1813.
Edgeworth, Maria. Popular Tales. Joseph Johnson, 1804.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Practical Education. J. Johnson, 1798.
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, and Maria Edgeworth. Readings on Poetry. R. Hunter, 1816.
Edgeworth, Maria. Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces. R. Hunter, 1825.
Edgeworth, Maria. Tales and Novels. Baldwin and Cradock, 1832.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Tales of Fashionable Life. J. Johnson, 1812.
Edgeworth, Maria. The Modern Griselda. Joseph Johnson, 1805.
Edgeworth, Maria. The Parent’s Assistant. J. Johnson, 1796.