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Maria Edgeworth
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Standard Name: Edgeworth, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Edgeworth
Pseudonym: M. E.
Pseudonym: M. R. I. A.
ME
wrote, during the late eighteenth century and especially the early nineteenth century, long and short fiction for adults and children, as well as works about the theory and practice of pedagogy. Her reputation as an Irish writer, and as the inventor of the regional novel, has never waned; it was long before she became outmoded as a children's writer; her interest as a feminist writer is finally being explored.
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susan Ferrier | SF
's letters deal mainly with day-to-day occurrences, but her literary opinons are always worth having. She comments on several works by Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)
. Reading Austen
's Emma in 1816 (the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Hutton | Of particular value in CH
's letters are her comments on literature. She offered detailed views on (probably) Elizabeth Heyrick
's Exposition, a pamphlet about economics, admiring the language while doubting Heyrick's capacity to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Grant | Her range of curiosity of wide. Of orthodox Jews she writes, Is not priestcraft the same in all climes, in all ages, in all forms of worship? Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland. Editors Pelly, Patricia and Andrew Tod, Canongate, 1991. 96 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Yonge | CM's preface (dated March 1870) says that as a child she preferred the inherited books of the former generation to any moderns except Maria Edgeworth
. Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols. 1: v |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood
and Mary Davys
, she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth
, William Wordsworth
, and Thomas Carlyle
. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Hall | The Halls describe every Irish county for their readers, advising English tourists on what they might wish to see. They detail Irish landmarks—botanical gardens, jails, factories, the recently established Roman Catholic College
at Maynooth... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Berry | Like most of her correspondents, Berry is somewhat wordy, given to tiptoeing round the nuances of sentiment. Her letters to Walpole, like his to her, are divided between professions of affection and the endless chronicle... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. Owens Blackburne | The scope of Illustrious Irishwomen is broad, beginning with half-legendary Blackburne, E. Owens. Illustrious Irishwomen. Tinsley Brothers, 1877, 2 vols. I: 2 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emily Lawless | Lawless is keen to treat Edgeworth as an Irish author, noting her appropriation so far by the English. All of her biographers have, so far as my researches have gone, been English; consequently, the more... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862. 18 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | In her introduction to the volume she writes: The image created by woman herself may supersede the one presented to her by history and society, but she remains a member of society, an interpreter of... |
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