Marilyn Butler

Standard Name: Butler, Marilyn

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Maria Edgeworth
ME was born at Black Bourton in Oxfordshire, home of her mother's family.
ME 's biographer Marilyn Butler , in a footnote, discusses the different dates ascribed to her birth—1 January 1767 or 1768...
Health Maria Edgeworth
Her biographer Marilyn Butler surmises that she probably found some consolation for this illness in the fact that it brought her her father's undivided attention.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
75
Literary responses Helen Maria Williams
The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
7: 322
reminded the...
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
This was not the first collected edition, and another followed in 1848.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
491
In 1999-2003 her works appeared in a scholarly 12-volume set from Pickering and Chatto , edited by Marilyn Butler and Mitzi Myers .
Reception Maria Edgeworth
Scholarly and critical work on her ever since Marilyn Butler 's literary biography, 1972, has amassed a significant body of new understanding. In 2009 Susan Egenolf discussed her work in political fiction along with some...
Textual Production Jane Austen
This epistolary novella would thus be associated with a visit to the Austen family of the recently widowed Eliza de Feuillide (JA 's cousin, and later her sister-in-law). Eliza was nothing like the scheming...
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
Modern editions of MW began in the 1970s. Ralph M. Wardle edited her Collected Letters in 1979. Her Collected Works have been edited by Marilyn Butler and Janet Todd in seven volumes. MW is one...

Timeline

1783-89: Thomas Day anonymously published The History...

Writing climate item

1783-89

Thomas Day anonymously published The History of Sandford and Merton, a didactic book for children in three volumes (the second published in 1786).
Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93.
82-3
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
68 (1789): 327
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1993: Three formerly male-only Oxford colleges...

Building item

1993

Three formerly male-only Oxford colleges each elected its first female head: Marilyn Butler became Rector of Exeter , Averil Cameron Warden of Keble , and Jessica Rawson Warden of Merton .
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
517

Texts

Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, 1996, pp. 75-93.
Butler, Marilyn, and Maria Edgeworth. “Introduction”. Castle Rackrent; and, Ennui, Penguin, 1992, pp. 1-54.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
Butler, Marilyn. “Simplicity”. London Review of Books.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.