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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Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | By 1912 VW
had published on Margaret Cavendish
(as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Carter
, Anna Seward
, Elizabeth, Lady Holland
, Maria Edgeworth
, Lady Hester Stanhope
, theBrontë |
Textual Production | Emily Lawless | EL
published her life of Maria Edgeworth (she dated her brief preface this month). “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. Lawless, Emily. Maria Edgeworth. Macmillan. prelims |
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 | E. Nesbit | The sympathetic Jewish pawnbroker in this book may signify a change of heart in EN
(who had drawn prejudiced portraits of Jews before and who was later to depict another wise and admirable Jew) comparable... |
Textual Production | Frances Jacson | Again, many reference sources attribute this novel to Alethea Lewis
, though Lewis's biographer Shippen doubted the ascription. The work was ascribed to Jacson firstly by Maria Edgeworth
in 1818, and later by Joan Percy |
Textual Production | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
edited Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda (not one of Edgeworth's Irish but one of her English novels) for Everyman's Library. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Maggie Gee | MG
was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University
magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Rigby | The second appeared in June 1844. This instalment (as Children's Books) considered works by Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Martha Sherwood
, and Mary Howitt
. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Children’s Books”. Quarterly Review, Vol. 74 , pp. 1-26. 1 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 46 Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 1: 726 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:... |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's A Book of Sibyls considered the lives and works of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Maria Edgeworth
, Amelia Opie
, and Jane Austen
. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 289 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 293 |
Textual Production | Mary Leadbeater | It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth
, who did not know ML
very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library
copy is one presented by Edgeworth to... |
Textual Production | Stella Gibbons | She dedicated the novel to Brenda Bennet
and Stella Crow
, two old friends from North London Collegiate School
. The frontispiece quotes Maria Edgeworth
's Leonora. Gibbons, Stella. The Bachelor. Dodd, Mead. prelims Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 28 |
Textual Production | Christian Isobel Johnstone | She published this anonymously. Another edition of the same year has the Edinburgh imprint only. She claims that the first half of the work was set up in print before she had seen Scott
's... |
Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | In an Author's NoteNRS
tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney
, Miss Edgeworth
, Mrs Sherwood
and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her... |
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