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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood
and Mary Davys
, she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history... |
| 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 | 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 | Mary Berry | Like most of her correspondents, Berry is somewhat wordy, given to tiptoeing round the nuances of sentiment. Her letters to Walpole, like his to her, are divided between professions of affection and the endless chronicle... |
| 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, 1877, 2 vols. I: 2 |
| 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 | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862. 18 |
| 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 | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth
's children's... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Julia Kavanagh | In this second work of women's literary history, JK
once again limits herself to the novel. Her canon comprises ten authors, from Aphra Behn
to Sydney Morgan
by way of Sarah Fielding
, Frances Burney |
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