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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 208-12 |
| 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, 5 series. 2d ser. 38 (1803): 48 |
| 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, 2010. 55 |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | The notice in the Critical Review began by using this novel as a peg for a defence of good novels in general, especially, apparently, those dealing with national histories. The existence of many incompetent novelists... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 sketches were popular with readers. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| 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... |
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