Maria Edgeworth

01 January 1768 - 22 May 1849

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	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	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	Lady Louisa Stuart	LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...
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	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, 1827. title-page A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews, 1827. iii by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...
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	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	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	Anna Letitia Barbauld	The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's...
Textual Features	Catharine Maria Sedgwick	In her dedication to Edgeworth , CMS mentions with admiration the Irish writer's eminent services in the great cause of human virtue and improvement. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White, 1822. prelims In a preface she expresses great humility about her own...
Textual Features	Anne Plumptre	She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn, 1817. v-vi and hopes this book will arouse a deeper interest than that about France, since it concerns an object so...
Textual Features	Iza Duffus Hardy	Fitzallan first mesmerises Eileen Dundas in a harmless, social situation, but eventually puts her in a trance and has her kill Geoffrey Carresford, whom she loves and is expected to marry, and who has penetrated...
Textual Production	Eva Figes	EF wrote introductions to Maria Edgeworth 's Belinda and Patronage for the Pandora Press 's Mothers of the Novel series, both publiahed in 1986. She also contributed an article to Colette, 1991, a volume...
Textual Production	Eva Mary Bell	Some of her correspondence and a diary running from January to December 1936 survive in the archive of Hamilton of Hamwood in the National Library of Ireland . This archive includes papers of Mary Tighe
Textual Production	Seamus Heaney	During the 1980s and early 1990s SH wrote a number of plays (and also pamphlets) for the theatre company Field Day . In 1992 he had a hand in The Field Day Anthology of Irish...

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