Maria Edgeworth

01 January 1768 - 22 May 1849

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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Publishing	Jane Austen	James Stanier Clarke , the prince's librarian, had issued a somewhat obliquely-worded invitation to dedicate a future work to the prince. Emma was duly dedicated to him, albeit succinctly. Austen requested her new publisher, John Murray
Publishing	Sarah Tytler	ST found in J. A. Froude of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle...
Publishing	Susanna Watts	Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press . Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
Publishing	Catherine Hutton	CH wrote to the publisher Baldwin that Longman's had invited her to contribute to a female paper bearing the names of Barbauld , Inchbald , Edgeworth , and Hamilton . Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers. 159
Author summary	Molly Keane	MK had two distinct phases in her writing career. Between 1926 and 1961 she wrote, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, eleven novels and four plays. After almost twenty years of silence, she published...
Occupation	Catherine Hutton	As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in...
Occupation	Mary Sewell	In her later education of her own children, MS was deeply influenced by Richard and Maria Edgeworth 's educational principles. Her children were educated in the values of thrift, self-reliance, and service to others, and...
Literary responses	Germaine de Staël	The Critical Review boldly announced: This is one of the most fascinating novels we have lately met with—even though it continued, we abominate both its religion and its morals. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 38 (1803): 48
Literary responses	Elizabeth Hamilton	On Hamilton's death Maria Edgeworth wrote for an Irish paper an obituary with a literary analysis and assessment of her work. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 208-12
Literary responses	Elizabeth Hamilton	EH 's death, as Pam Perkins notes, received detailed and respectful coverage throughout the national press, including The Times's lengthy and sombrely respectful obituary by Maria Edgeworth . Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi. 55 Edgeworth was only mistaken in...
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...
Literary responses	Caroline Scott	The Athenæum reviewer judged the best parts of this novel to be the portraits of Trevelyan, his admirable sister, and his appalling wife. It quoted several passages of dialogue, singling out for praise the unfounded...
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 476 other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...
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. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 71-2 She became (and remained more or less all her...
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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