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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sewell | MS
used this book in the religious training of her children. It was written entirely in one-syllable words. She hoped writing the book would enable her to purchase Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth
(and her... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. 11 |
| Publishing | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to... |
| Friends, Associates | Lydia Howard Sigourney | On this trip LHS
added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth
, William Wordsworth
, Samuel Rogers
, Anna Maria Hall
and her husband
, and Jane
and Thomas Carlyle |
| 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
. |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | The Somervilles' circle was not purely a scientific one, and MS
became a friend of the actress Lady Becher
and with the Baillie family. She accompanied Joanna Baillie
to the opening of the latter's play... |
| Literary responses | Mary Somerville | The text was praised by Maria Edgeworth
for hav[ing] enlarged my conception of the sublimity of the universe, beyond any ideas I had ever before been enable to form. Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 204 |
| Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | The Critical Review boldly announced: This is one of the most fascinating novels we have lately met with—even though it continued, we abominate both its religion and its morals. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 38 (1803): 48 |
| Education | Harriet Beecher Stowe | At the age of six Harriet Beecher began attending a primary school. Then, at the age of eight, she entered the Litchfield Female Academy
, a boarding school founded by Sarah Pierce
in 1792. One... |
| 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 | Lady Louisa Stuart | |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Meanwhile the vogue for The Wild Irish Girl was immense: Dublin ladies were wearing scarlet cloaks and golden bodkins, as Glorvina and as Owenson did. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 71-2 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The review in the Critical made nostalgic reference to pleasure in Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, and continued: As a national writer, we cannot too much admire her sentiments; and, as a descriptive writer... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Two Belgian ministers of state wrote to express their appreciation. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 391-2 Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 222 |
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