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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Lawless | Collections of EL
's shorter works of fiction also appeared, including Plain Frances Mowbray, and Other Tales, 1889 (whose title story is set in Venice), “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | Despite some later revision, Northanger Abbey is essentially (like its ancestor Susan) a novel of the 1790s, a spoof of both the gothic and romance modes which were then all the rage. Austen's specific... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters is assured in tone, leisurely in pace, and deft in omniscient narration and lively dialogue. The nursery-rhyme-like opening conveys the narrator's affectionate irony with respect to her protagonist and her place in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Mary Wollstonecraft
, though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margery Lawrence | She took this title from a remark by Maria Edgeworth
: Today is the Tomorrow of Yesterday. qtd. in Lawrence, Margery. The Tomorrow of Yesterday. Robert Hale, 1966. prelims |
| 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 | Mary Sewell | MS
used this book in the religious training of her children. It was written entirely in one-syllable words. She hoped writing the book would enable her to purchase Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth
(and her... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | This novel handles remarkably the stock motif of the foundling, and the more unusual theme of an abusive marriage. (In a note at the end, BH
says that each of these is based on a... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Fanny Holcroft | The Critical gave this novel a detailed notice starting from the proposition that FH
had not had critical justice because of unfair comparisons with her eminent father. It praised the contrast in personality between the... |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum faulted the book as being something close to a textbook under the guise of entertainment. Young people, he argued, resent such books as engines of oppression. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1788 (1862): 151 |
| Literary responses | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey
, Dr Thomas Arnold
of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately
. James Montgomery
and Maria Edgeworth
were particularly appreciative of Ann. Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939. 172 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was the most popular of EH
's novels during her lifetime and long afterwards. Maria Edgeworth
said its humour made it loved in Ireland. Francis Jeffrey
reviewed it enthusiastically. Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010. 99 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Critical Review took occasion from this work to link EH
with Hannah More
and Maria Edgeworth
as three distinguished female writers who do honour to the countries of England, Ireland, and Scotland; but its... |
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