Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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Publishing | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to... |
Reception | Susanna Watts | Maria
and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
, visiting Leicester in the year of publication, were begged by a local bookseller to look at this volume. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004. 14 and n51 |
Residence | Maria Edgeworth | 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. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 77 Moynahan, Julian. Anglo-Irish. Princeton University Press, 1995. 13-14 |
Textual Features | Maria Edgeworth | 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... |
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... |
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 Production | Anna Seward | |
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, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 188 Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 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, 1972. 57, 146 |
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 | 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, 1972. 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, 1972. 210-11 |
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 | 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
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... |
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