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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | Anne Elliot, heroine of Persuasion, gets a second chance to marry the man she had rejected nine years before under pressure from her elders. His prospects of a self-made career did not at that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft
can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting
, who edited in 1796 the first volume... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Brownell Jameson | The book is also a model of female erudition, peppered with foreign phrases, references to earlier Shakespeare critics, to the visual arts, and to other authors, including the ancient Greek dramatists and the German romanticists... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Taken together, ALB
's various writings for children during her career as educator at Palgrave School
exerted enormous influence on other children's writers, such as Maria Edgeworth
, Sarah Trimmer
, Hannah More
, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | Evelina was influential in its general plan and in its details. Maria Edgeworth
in Belinda borrows one of its ideas for embarrassing the heroine: having someone make unauthorised use of her name for the peremptory... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB
's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families. Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997. lviii-lix |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | The two stories appear to be based on fact, since Agnes Merton's father is a horticulturalist on a jaunt into the country to inspect rare plants. The first story contrasts the prudent and the rash... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke
's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
). Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819, 3 vols. 3: 95 |
| Literary responses | Amelia Beauclerc | The reviewer for the Monthly commented on Alinda's tolerable representation of a poor Irish domestic, which character is much in vogue with the novel-writers; perhaps from ample materials for its delineation which have been... |
| 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. qtd. in Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874. 204 |
| 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, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 71-2 |
| Literary responses | Susanna Watts | Mary Pilkington
and others praised SW
's translations in manuscript. John Heyrick
(husband of her friend Elizabeth) called her the elegant translator of Tasso in his First Flights, published in 1797. qtd. in Feminist Companion Archive. |
| 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... |
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