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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
received a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth
containing carefully-formulated praise of the nearly twenty-year-old A Simple Story (which Edgeworth had just read for the third or fourth time). Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 159 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The sketches were popular with readers. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Two Belgian ministers of state wrote to express their appreciation. Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 391-2 qtd. in Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 222 |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | Reviewers were anything but indifferent. The New Monthly Magazine thought the title character ably and vigorously drawn and the book therefore a moral one: a fearful beacon to warn the young and inexperienced. But the... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The second series was also well received. The Weekly Dispatch review of the same work reported that AMH
did ample justice to the warmth of feeling, wit and humour of her countrymen, yet she does... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Athenæum gave this almost a full-page review (far more than it had yet accorded any of the Illustrations). It compared HM
's work in detail with that of Sir Walter Scott
and more... |
| Literary responses | Jane Austen | Mary Russell Mitford
found JA
's heroine pert and worldly. qtd. in Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 20 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Maria Edgeworth
wrote to HM
to express her admiration of The Hour and the Man, and Florence Nightingale
said after the author's death that she had read it repeatedly and considered it the finest... |
| Literary responses | Frances Jacson | The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 1 (1812): 668 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 688 |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | AO
's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly
notes that when they were new they commanded among the... |
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