Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Standard Name: Edgeworth, Richard Lovell

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Education	Frances Power Cobbe	FPC received lessons from her nurse Martha Jones and from her mother . Her reading included Sarah Trimmer 's History of the Robins, Anna Barbauld 's Lessons for Children, and poetry by Jane Taylor
Education	Anna Sewell	For most of her childhood, AS was educated at home by her mother, as the Sewell family could not afford formal training for either of the children. Mary Sewell believed strongly in the Edgeworth s'...
Education	Charlotte Yonge	The young CY seems to have been totally unlike her adult self: a noisy, excitable child with a great capacity for screaming. qtd. in Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943. 43 Her parents followed the system of Richard and Maria Edgeworth for bringing...
Education	Elizabeth Gaskell	Until the age of eleven, Elizabeth was taught at home by her Aunt Hannah Lumb . As befitting the Unitarian emphasis on personal freedom and rationality, she read widely, and was encouraged to make her...
Family and Intimate relationships	Maria Edgeworth	ME 's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth , was landowner, land-improver, educator, scientist, author, and the father of twenty-two children. ME 's youngest half-brother was forty-five years her junior. Moynahan, Julian. Anglo-Irish. Princeton University Press, 1995. 15, 17
Family and Intimate relationships	Maria Edgeworth	In 1773 Maria was motherless for less than four months before she acquired the first of three successive stepmothers: Honora Sneyd , with whom Richard Lovell Edgeworth had recently fallen in love. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 41-2, 46 Honora...
Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Sewell	Mary (Wright) Sewell was a highly successful writer of didactic poetry and moral tales for children. Her sentimental ballad Mother's Last Words (1860), sold over one million copies. A follower of educators Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Family and Intimate relationships	Maria Edgeworth	ME was distracted from her writing by concern for her father 's health: he was suffering painful bouts of intestinal and kidney disease. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 233-4
Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Seward	She was nearly fourteen when the five-year-old Honora Sneyd , whose mother was dead, came to live in the Seward household. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 9-10 This early friendship was crucial to her. When Honora married Maria Edgeworth 's...
Family and Intimate relationships	Maria Edgeworth	ME suffered a blow she had long dreaded: the death of her father . Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 401
Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Seward	At least in her mature years, AS had a low opinion of marriage, though there were various stories of her nearly marrying (or wishing to marry) various men beginning with Erasmus Darwin , then her...
Friends, Associates	Joanna Baillie	On the other hand she was fully appreciative of Maria Edgeworth , whom she first met on 16 May 1813. She sounded a little patronising about Edgeworth after this first meeting, but felt an immediate...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Sewell	MS used this book in the religious training of her children. It was written entirely in one-syllable words. She hoped writing the book would enable her to purchase Practical Education by Maria Edgeworth (and her...
Intertextuality and Influence	Maria Edgeworth	It opens with a breezy, antifeminist, adversarial Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend. The gentleman is hostile to female education and female authorship; his letter is based on one actually sent by Day
Intertextuality and Influence	Maria Edgeworth	She received two hundred pounds for it, twice as much as for the recent Castle Rackrent. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 492 She applied the genre-name moral tale, that same year, to an adult novel as well. Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Timeline

1770

The Lichfield Circle began to develop at Lichfield in Staffordshire; the group advocated reform of women's education away from time-filling accomplishments such as japanning and toward intellectual learning.

Rourke, Sherri. The Lichfield Circle and Female Education. University of Alberta, 1985.

7-33

1783-89

Thomas Day anonymously published The History of Sandford and Merton, a didactic book for children in three volumes (the second published in 1786).

Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93.

82-3

Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.

68 (1789): 327

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

2 July 1798

The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or polite repository of amusement and instruction published its first number. Sometimes called The Ladies' Monthly Museum . . . it ran until the 1830s.

Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.

216

Pitcher, Edward W. The "Lady’s Monthly Museum". First Series: 1798-1806. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Texts

Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, and Maria Edgeworth. A Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Charlemont. P. Byrne, 1797.

Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, and Maria Edgeworth. Essay on Irish Bulls. Joseph Johnson, 1802.

Edgeworth, Richard Lovell. Essays on Professional Education. Joseph Johnson, 1809.

Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Harrington, A Tale; and, Ormond, A Tale. R. Hunter, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817, 3 vols.

Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, and Maria Edgeworth. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. R. Hunter, 1820, 2 vols.

Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Moral Tales for Young People. J. Johnson, 1801, 5 vols.

Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Practical Education. J. Johnson, 1798, 2 vols.

Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, and Maria Edgeworth. Readings on Poetry. R. Hunter, 1816.

Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Tales of Fashionable Life. J. Johnson, 1812, 6 vols.