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Edgeworth, Maria (1767 - 1849)

Short name Edgeworth, Maria
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/71477273
First name Maria
Birth name Edgeworth
Married name
Date of birth 1767
Date of death 1849
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Black Bourton
Place of death Edgeworthstown (Mostrim)
Lived in Ireland
Place of residence notes
Mother
Father
Children
Religion / ideology Protestant
Education Educated at home, School education
Aristocratic title -
Professional or ecclesiastical title -
Edgeworth, Maria was ...
related to Hofland, Barbara
related to Mary Leadbeater
related to Seward, Anna
related to Brooke, Charlotte
related to Jemima von Tautphoeus
collaborator Żółkowska, Klara
Profession(s)
Memberships
Place(s) of Residence Ireland
Author of
receptions circulations
*Translation remained unpublished (1790)
is also a reception: is translation of Adèle et Théodore, ou Lettres sur l'éducation
0 0
Letters for literary Ladies (1795) 0 0
The parent's assistant or Stories for children (1796) 4 0
Practical Education (1798) 3 0
Simple Susan (1800) 1 0
Castle Rackrent (1800) 1 0
Belinda (1801)
is also a reception: comments on work Lettres [de Madame de Sévigné]
1 0
Moral tales for young people (1801) 6 0
Angelina, ou l'amie inconnue (1801) 1 0
Murad the Unlucky (1804) 0 0
Popular Tales (1804) 4 0
The Modern Griselda (1805) 1 0
*Mention in Belinda (1806)
is also a reception: is intertextual to Caroline de Lichtfield
0 0
Leonora (1806)
is also a reception: is intertextual to Delphine
0 0
Leonora (1806) 0 0
*Letter to Mrs Ruxton (April 1808). (1808)
is also a reception: comments on work Corinne ou l'Italie
0 0
Ennui and Manoeuvering (1809) 7 0
Tales of Fashionable Life (1809) 4 0
Vivian (Tales of fashionable life) (1809) 3 2
The wife, or a model for women (1810) 2 0
*Positive comments on her reading (1810) 0 0
Rosamond (1810) 2 1
*Comment in private letter (1810)
is also a reception: comments on work Lettres écrites de Lausanne
0 0
Fatherless Fanny: the little mendicant and her benefactors: a singular narrative of a young lady's entrance to high life (1811) 2 0
Manoeuvring (1811) 1 0
The contrast (in Popular Tales Vol 3) (1811) 1 0
Emilie de Coulanges (1812) 2 0
The Absentee (1812) 2 0
Patronage (1814) 6 1
*Dialogue in Patronage (1814)
is also a reception: is intertextual to Essay on the Writings and Genius of Skakespear
0 0
*Een maaltijd in Ierland (A meal in Ireland) (1814) 1 0
Ormond; Harrington (1817) 2 0
*Nieuwe verhalen voor de Jeugd, ter vorming van het zedelijk gevoel (New stories for the Youth, to form the moral feeling) (1818) 1 0
Helen, a tale (1834) 16 1
*De buren, en Het Testament (The neighbours, and The Will) (1840~) 5 0
*Positive comments on her reading 0 0

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Circulations of Edgeworth, Maria, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Date Type

Receptions of Edgeworth, Maria, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
Le Souterrain, ou les Deux Sœurs The souterrain, or the two sisters F. Metaal - Backker 1806 -
John Downman, portrait of Maria Edgeworth, 1807. 1807 is portrait of
*Art. in De Recensent Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1811 comments on person
*Mention in Vestnik Evropy [European Herald] Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1816 -
*Mention in Indice alfabetico della Biblioteca di Casa Gozze Unknown reader (to be identified) 1819 lists person
*Recommendation in Letter to Hortense de Beauharnais Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet 1820 -
On the Female Literature of the Present Age [unidentified author, multiple, separate records to be made] 1820 comments on person
Les femmes illustres de l'Europe The glorious women of Europe Drohojowska, Antoinette-Joséphine-Françoise-Anne 1822 is biography of
Degeorge, Frédéric: "14. - * The golden violet, etc. –" (mention in a review) [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1827 comments on person
De l'Influence des femmes Mongellaz, Fanny 1828 is biography of
*Art. in Vaderlandse Letteroefeningen Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1837 -
*Comment in private letter Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von 1840 comments on person
Het slot Goczijn. Uit de papieren eener vrouw […] Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1842 -
Engelske Forfatterinder (English Authoresses) [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1858 comments on person
Préface Jean de la Roche Sand, George (pseudonym) 1859 -
Engelske forfatterinder. Maria Edgeworth English authoresses. M. E. Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1861 is biography of
*Mention in The Literary Reader Beer, Taco Hajo de 1882 comments on person
Maria Edgeworth Helen Zimmern 1883 is biography of
*art. on Maria Edgeworth in Nuova Antologia *Nemi 1904 comments on person
Maria Edgeworth and her cercle in the days of Buonaparte and Bourbon Hill, Constance 1910 is biography of

MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Lively defender of women's education".
- Pléiade, p.461
- Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 773, 794.

Cf.
- J. Grieder, Translations of French sentimental prose fiction, 1975.

Abundantly translated into French: 244 items in the cat. BNF

Collaborated with father Richard Lovell Edgeworth.

MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.73: novels containing “fem.”message