ME
set out, with herfather
, stepmother
, and two eldest unmarried sisters, to visit France and Belgium.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
187-9
Travel
Maria Edgeworth
ME
stayed at Clifton near Bristol with her father
, stepmother, and her six younger siblings (all but the toddler).
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
104, 114
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
wrote a preface, dating it February. He was seriously annoyed when Johnson commissioned Thomas Holcroft
to write mottoes for these tales. Johnson, however, paid three hundred pounds for it.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 188
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
490, 492
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
's father
began an Arabian fable and asked the eleven-year-old Maria to finish it for him.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
57, 146
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
and her father
published their co-authored book of educational method in two quarto volumes, Practical Education.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
169
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
published, with his name, Essays on Professional Education, which was in fact a collaboration between himself and ME
.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
210-11
Textual Production
Julia Wedgwood
When she began working on her second novel, her father
insisted on editing her drafts extensively, priding himself that he could play a role in her career similar to that of Maria Edgeworth
's father
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
was probably chief author of A Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Charlemont
on the Tellograph and on the Defence of Ireland, published under her father
's name.
Another work of...
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
published her Essay on Irish Bulls, written in conjunction with her father
to combat anti-Irish prejudice.
An Irish Bull was a term (used by English people) for an amusing misuse of words, such...
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
R. Hunter
, successor to Joseph Johnson
, issued ME
's father
's Readings on Poetry, with a preface and final chapter by Maria.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
505
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
published Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
, Esq. Begun by himself and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi
Textual Production
Anna Seward
AS
published at LichfieldMonody on Major André (who was hanged as a spy at Tappan, New York State, on 2 October 1780), with some letters he had written her.
André had been a...
Textual Production
Anna Seward
With this work appeared AS
's Ode to the Sun. Richard Lovell Edgeworth
later categorically alleged that the best passages in the elegy were in fact written by Erasmus Darwin
, and this story...
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
During the same year, ME
's father
and first stepmother
planned a series of dialogues for children. Their dialogues were to be called Harry and Lucy. Thomas Day
was to contribute to the project...
Textual Features
Jennifer Johnston
Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper...
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.
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).
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.
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.
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, and Maria Edgeworth. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. R. Hunter, 1820.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Moral Tales for Young People. J. Johnson, 1801.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Practical Education. J. Johnson, 1798.
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.