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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Literary responses Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's plays were admired by Maria Edgeworth , Joanna Baillie , and Felicia Hemans , though John Genest (in Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832), judged them dull.
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...
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...
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. 11 Feb. 1834.
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 Emily Frederick Clark
She dedicated this book, which bore her name (with mention of her grandfather and her previous novel), to the Countess of Shaftesbury (wife of the sixth earl, who was soon to become the mother of...
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to...
Publishing Barbara Hofland
BH asked her publisher, John Harris , ten pounds for this book, which was, she said, doing a bold thing.
qtd. in
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
39
A new, cheap edition in 1816 (wrongly taken by the original Dictionary of...
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 Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
This work was translated and published in London as Adelaide and Theodore; or, Letters on Education, 1783. (Its appearance came too soon for the young Maria Edgeworth , who was working on a translation...
Publishing Frances Burney
FB had worked on the story told in this novel since before her marriage. The heroine had been called variously Betulia, Arietta, and Clarinda.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
205, 209
The final product was dedicated to Queen Charlotte Sophia
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, 1891.
159
Reception Jane Porter
The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thomas McLean , however...
Reception Anna Letitia Barbauld
J. W. Croker 's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey ) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft

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