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.
Watercolour portrait of youthful-looking Maria Edgeworth by John Downman, 1807. She sits on a straight-backed chair, wearing a lacy cap with a blue bow, and a blue, empire-style dress over white, high-necked, gauzy linen.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Inchbald
EI first met both Maria Edgeworth (with whom her friendship had begun two years earlier, when Edgeworth wrote to her in praise of A Simple Story) and Germaine de Staël .
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
159-61
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.
159
Textual Production 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
Friends, Associates Frances Jacson
Maria Edgeworth , when she met both sisters in November 1818, personally preferred Maria, though she admired Frances's writing.
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, pp. 301-17.
307n13
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.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 668
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 688
Sarah, Lady Davy , told Sarah Ponsonby
Textual Production Frances Jacson
Again, many reference sources attribute this novel to Alethea Lewis , though Lewis's biographer Shippen doubted the ascription. The work was ascribed to Jacson firstly by Maria Edgeworth in 1818, and later by Joan Percy
Literary responses Frances Jacson
Maria Edgeworth read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ 's achievement.
Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
23
, No. 1, pp. 81-97.
96n5
Published almost simultaneously with Austen
Friends, Associates Maria Elizabetha Jacson
Maria Edgeworth , who met the sisters in November 1818, wrote: I like the gay garden lady [Maria Jacson ] best at the first sight but I will suspend my judgment prudently till I see more.
Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, pp. 301-17.
307n13
Literary responses Maria Elizabetha Jacson
On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin and Sir Brooke Boothby wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
They may have met on account of her praising his The Beauties of the Boyne (1849) in the Nation. The groom was eminent in his profession, having written the earliest textbooks in both his...
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall in March 1831, GJ saw William Wordsworth and Maria Edgeworth .
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
15-16
In the 1830s and 1840s she became a friend...
Textual Features Jennifer Johnston
Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper...
Textual Production Christian Isobel Johnstone
She published this anonymously. Another edition of the same year has the Edinburgh imprint only. She claims that the first half of the work was set up in print before she had seen Scott 's...

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