Richard Lovell Edgeworth

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...

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...

On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin and Sir Brooke Boothby wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that...

BH said she had the specific approbation of Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth for another book set in the lower ranks of society, The Blind Farmer and his Children.

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...

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...

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...

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...

ME , having left school, set out with her father to live at Edgeworthstown in County Longford, where the Edgeworth family had been established since 1583.

The Double Disguise, set in an inn in England (the Pig and Castle, on the road from Ireland via Liverpool to London), features a travelling Irish family. The father (Richard Lovell Edgeworth 's...

ME stayed at Clifton near Bristol with her father , stepmother, and her six younger siblings (all but the toddler).

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

Richard Lovell Edgeworth , with ME and the rest of the family, were forced to leave their house to escape the Catholic rebels.

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

ME set out, with herfather , stepmother , and two eldest unmarried sisters, to visit France and Belgium.