Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, p. i - xxi.
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Education
Edna Lyall
Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve...
Education
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
's formal schooling was minimal. Mrs Shiel, who ran a class she attended which catered mostly to children of Canons of Westminster, claimed to be a follower of Pestalozzi
, yet mocked Marie for...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Vernon Lee
In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,...
Textual Features
Q. D. Leavis
The essay Jane Austen: Novelist of a Changing Society effectively illustrates QDL
's major critical interests, values, and methodology. It argues that in her life and writing, Jane Austen is a moralist, but one whose...
Textual Production
Mary Leadbeater
It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth
, who did not know ML
very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library
copy is one presented by Edgeworth to...
Friends, Associates
Mary Leadbeater
While in England ML
visited Edmund Burke
at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786...
Intertextuality and Influence
Margery Lawrence
She took this title from a remark by Maria Edgeworth
: Today is the Tomorrow of Yesterday.
Lawrence, Margery. The Tomorrow of Yesterday. Robert Hale.
prelims
Her Author's Foreword maintains that this is not a work of science fiction. The story, she says...
Textual Production
Emily Lawless
EL
published her life of Maria Edgeworth (she dated her brief preface this month).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Lawless, Emily. Maria Edgeworth. Macmillan.
prelims
Literary responses
Emily Lawless
The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of...
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.
Lawless is keen to treat Edgeworth as an Irish author, noting her appropriation so far by the English. All of her biographers have, so far as my researches have gone, been English; consequently, the more...
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...
Textual Features
L. E. L.
The novel also has a strong political element. It comments on the power of newspapers in national life, through reporting and editorials but also through advertising. Mr Delawarr is, says literary historian Edward Copeland, a...
