Richard Lovell Edgeworth

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...

The young CY seems to have been totally unlike her adult self: a noisy, excitable child with a great capacity for screaming. Her parents followed the system of Richard and Maria Edgeworth for bringing...

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

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'...

ME was distracted from her writing by concern for her father 's health: he was suffering painful bouts of intestinal and kidney disease.

ME suffered a blow she had long dreaded: the death of her father .

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.

She was nearly fourteen when the five-year-old Honora Sneyd , whose mother was dead, came to live in the Seward household. This early friendship was crucial to her. When Honora married Maria Edgeworth 's...

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. Honora...

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...

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

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...

She received two hundred pounds for it, twice as much as for the recent Castle Rackrent. She applied the genre-name moral tale, that same year, to an adult novel as well. Richard Lovell Edgeworth

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...

This novel handles remarkably the stock motif of the foundling, and the more unusual theme of an abusive marriage. (In a note at the end, BH says that each of these is based on a...