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...
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'...
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Hofland
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...
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...
Timeline
1770: The Lichfield Circle began to develop at...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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.