Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
46 (1778): 160; 47 (1779): 320
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Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The Critical Review gave high praise to each of the series. So did the Monthly, which also cracked her anonymity from the beginning. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 46 (1778): 160; 47 (1779): 320 McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 191-2 |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 199n30 |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 476 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | She received two hundred pounds for it, twice as much as for the recent Castle Rackrent. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 492 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Sewell | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Edgeworth | ME
was distracted from her writing by concern for her father
's health: he was suffering painful bouts of intestinal and kidney disease. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 233-4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Edgeworth | ME
suffered a blow she had long dreaded: the death of her father
. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 401 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | She was nearly fourteen when the five-year-old Honora Sneyd
, whose mother was dead, came to live in the Seward household. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 9-10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Edgeworth | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Edgeworth | 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. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 41-2, 46 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Sewell | 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 |
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