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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Susanna Watts | Maria
and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
, visiting Leicester in the year of publication, were begged by a local bookseller to look at this volume. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004. 14 and n51 |
| Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | In December 1848, the eighty-year-old Maria Edgeworth
, who was having Mary Barton read to her, speculated that it might be by Harriet Martineau
, but by January she knew of Gaskell's authorship. By that... |
| Reception | Mary Angela Dickens | Another Freak, also published in MAD
's collection Some Women's Ways, is reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women (1998) alongside works by both well-known and obscure authors, including Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Shelley |
| Reception | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot... |
| Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village made MRM
a literary lion. She became a celebrity, and was entertained by dukes as the toast of the town. Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62. 58 |
| Reception | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
| Residence | Lucy Aikin | Stoke Newington was going downhill during their later years there. Maria Edgeworth
, visiting in 1818, found it dismal, filthy with coal-dust and brick-dust. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 515 |
| Textual Features | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
drew information for her stories from the narratives of Josiah Henson
and Henry Bibb
. That she later wrote an introduction to the 1858 edition of Henson's 1849 narrative of slavery is an example... |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
| Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's... |
| Textual Features | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | In her dedication to Edgeworth
, CMS
mentions with admiration the Irish writer's eminent services in the great cause of human virtue and improvement. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White, 1822. prelims |
| Textual Features | Iza Duffus Hardy | Fitzallan first mesmerises Eileen Dundas in a harmless, social situation, but eventually puts her in a trance and has her kill Geoffrey Carresford, whom she loves and is expected to marry, and who has penetrated... |
| Textual Features | Anne Plumptre | She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn, 1817. v-vi |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | Literary discussion spills over from the preface into the text. The Rev. Edward Marsham, surprisingly for one of his profession, finds Hannah More
's Coelebs too religious; he prefers canonical novelists who teach virtue and... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | As well as laying the expected emphasis on exemplary moral qualities, she makes much of Hamilton's ardour, racy humour, and love of life. In providing a detailed account of her literary career, EOB
highlights Hamilton's... |
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