Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Meanwhile the vogue for The Wild Irish Girl was immense: Dublin ladies were wearing scarlet cloaks and golden bodkins, as Glorvina and as Owenson did. She became (and remained more or less all her...

Richard Lovell Edgeworth , in a long private commentary written on these books, objected strongly to the question to Puss about the rabbit as likely to bemuse and terrify a child.

Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), other responses were disapproving, even vitriolic. Many cited the allegedly unpatriotic tendency of the poem in terms...

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...

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

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...

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