Richard Lovell Edgeworth

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...

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...

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 '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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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