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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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| Reception | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot... |
| Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village made MRM
a literary lion. She became a celebrity, and was entertained by dukes as the toast of the town. Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62. 58 |
| Reception | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
| Reception | Anna Letitia Barbauld | J. W. Croker
's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey
) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Reception | Jane Porter | The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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 | Lucy Aikin | Stoke Newington was going downhill during their later years there. Maria Edgeworth
, visiting in 1818, found it dismal, filthy with coal-dust and brick-dust. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 515 |
| Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | The stories are eventful as well as didactic (incidents range from natural disaster and piracy to child heroism and the death of a baby). They typically feature sudden adversity, which snatches children from a familiar... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
| Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead... |
| Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Thomson
, and the preface acknowledges the influence of Maria Edgeworth
's The Modern Griselda, 1805. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 366 |
| Textual Features | Mary Sewell | MS
follows in the tradition of Hannah More
's Cheap Repository Tracts, and is perhaps also indebted to Mary Leadbeater
's Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry. Maria Edgeworth
's writing for children was also a significant influence. |
| Textual Features | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The title of the Blackstick Papers alludes to the character of the Fairy Blackstick from her father
's Rose and the Ring: she places her essays under the kindly tutelage Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press, 1969. 3-4 |
| Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | The essay Jane Austen: Novelist of a Changing Society effectively illustrates QDL
's major critical interests, values, and methodology. It argues that in her life and writing, Jane Austen is a moralist, but one whose... |
| Textual Features | Lady Louisa Stuart |
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