Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
When she began working on her second novel, her father
insisted on editing her drafts extensively, priding himself that he could play a role in her career similar to that of Maria Edgeworth
's father
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Eva Figes
EF
wrote introductions to Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda and Patronage for the Pandora Press
's Mothers of the Novel series, both publiahed in 1986. She also contributed an article to Colette, 1991, a volume...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
The importance of politics in ALB
's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth
in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
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Marianne Moore
This enumeration by no means exhausts MM
's output. She made sallies into French literature with a translation of La Fontaine
's fables, 1954, and a re-telling (rather than a translation) of fairy-tales by Perrault
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Jane Marcet
A three-volume anonymous work appeared from John Murray
, Bertha's Visit to her Uncle in England: it is often attributed to JM
, but is in fact by Harriet Beaufort
, whose sister was...
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Mary Hays
It was published by Simpkin and Marshall
, dedicated to Eliza Fenwick
in these words: While the Atlantic rolls between us, allow me, dear friend, to gratify my feelings, by addressing to you this little...
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Elizabeth Inchbald
EI
, or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld
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Seamus Heaney
During the 1980s and early 1990s SH
wrote a number of plays (and also pamphlets) for the theatre company Field Day
. In 1992 he had a hand in The Field Day Anthology of Irish...
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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
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
Barbauld's correspondence with Lydia Rickards
was printed in Murray's Magazine in 1891. Other letters have reached print in various compilations: a selection was included with letters by Maria Edgeworth
in 1953.
The stories are eventful as well as didactic (incidents range from natural disaster and piracy to child heroism and the death of a baby). They typically feature sudden adversity, which snatches children from a familiar...
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Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
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Harriet Martineau
Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead...
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
As well as laying the expected emphasis on exemplary moral qualities, she makes much of Hamilton's ardour, racy humour, and love of life. In providing a detailed account of her literary career, EOB
highlights Hamilton's...
