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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | Despite some later revision, Northanger Abbey is essentially (like its ancestor Susan) a novel of the 1790s, a spoof of both the gothic and romance modes which were then all the rage. Austen's specific... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting
, who edited in 1796 the first volume... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | Anne Elliot, heroine of Persuasion, gets a second chance to marry the man she had rejected nine years before under pressure from her elders. His prospects of a self-made career did not at that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Sales were unexpectedly brisk. Reviews were positive and most emphasised that the stories here were true. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxxvi |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | Evelina was influential in its general plan and in its details. Maria Edgeworth
in Belinda borrows one of its ideas for embarrassing the heroine: having someone make unauthorised use of her name for the peremptory... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | The two stories appear to be based on fact, since Agnes Merton's father is a horticulturalist on a jaunt into the country to inspect rare plants. The first story contrasts the prudent and the rash... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it... |
| 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. lviii-lix |
| 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. 3: 95 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Marcet | JM
probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner
and William Hyde Wollaston
; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy
. She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan
, Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, p. i - xxi. iii, v n6 |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Joanna Baillie
(a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF
, and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 699 |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Closest to CMS
were her siblings and their spouses, several of whom were also published authors. The Sedgwick family and Fanny Kemble
were apparently the inner circle of the literary scene in the Berkshires,... |
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