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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Friends, Associates | Frances Jacson | Maria Edgeworth
, when she met both sisters in November 1818, personally preferred Maria, though she admired Frances's writing. Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 23 , No. 3, pp. 301-17. 307n13 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Hofland | BH
retained at least one life-long friendship from her Sheffield or Attercliffe days: with the poet and novelist Sarah Pearson
, who had been her neighbour there. Pearson's will charged Hofland with the task of... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
Friends, Associates | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
's circle of friends at this period of her life, many of them entertained by herself and her husband at the Hoo but many whose relationship with her went back to long before her... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Mary Hamilton | She was introduced to William Wordsworth
through her brother
, and Wordsworth visited the Hamilton siblings at Dunsink in August 1829. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 38 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 44 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | Maria Edgeworth
, who met the sisters in November 1818, wrote: I like the gay garden lady [Maria Jacson
] best at the first sight but I will suspend my judgment prudently till I see more. Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 23 , No. 3, pp. 301-17. 307n13 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Leadbeater | While in England ML
visited Edmund Burke
at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Brooke | Apart from Joseph C. Walker
, the early friend who became the first person to publish her, CB
carried on an amicable correspondence with Thomas Percy
, whose project of conserving English ballads parallelled her... |
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... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 151 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall
in March 1831, GJ
saw William Wordsworth
and Maria Edgeworth
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 15-16 |
Friends, Associates | Susanna Watts | Maria Edgeworth
(early in her career, but already known for Castle Rackrent as well as pedagogical works) met SW
in a bookshop. The encounter must have been intensely embarrassing for Watts, who twice failed to... |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
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