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Women, Education and Literature - the Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 Women, Education and Literature - The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 WOMEN, EDUCATION AND LITERATURE The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 Part 1: The Edgeworth Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford Part 2: The Edgeworth Papers from the National Library of Ireland Part 3: Edgeworth Papers from Other Libraries Contents listing Publisher's Note Abbreviations Family Tree: The Children of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (PDF Document) Family Tree: The Edgeworth Family (PDF Document) Contents of Reels - Part 1 Contents of Reels - Part 2 Contents of Reels - Part 3 Detailed Listing - Part 1 Detailed Listing - Part 2 Detailed Listing - Part 3 Chronology Women, Education and Literature - The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 PUBLISHER'S NOTE "The publication of this microfilm edition will vastly assist readers and scholars everywhere to extend and deepen their knowledge of Edgeworth's works, through access for the first time to the great bulk of an unusually rich archive of unpublished writings and correspondence." Dr Marilyn Butler, Fellow, King's College, Cambridge Maria Edgeworth occupies an important place in the history of women's writing. A pioneer of social realism, her novels represent a significant contribution to the literature of class, race and gender. Castle Rackrent (1800), a comic masterpiece, is recognised as the first fully developed regional novel and the first true historical novel in English. Edgeworth's use of dialect was innovative and her analysis of the ramifications of Ireland's colonial status perceptive. Jane Austen was an admirer and sent her one of the first printed copies of Emma. Sir Walter Scott acknowledged his debt to her in the Preface to his Waverley Novels in 1829. Writers such as Balzac, Chekhov, Gogol, George Sand and Turgenev were all influenced by her. Maria Edgeworth is also an important figure in the History of Education, particularly concerning the education of women. In Practical Education (1798) she demanded that the shackles should be removed from female education: "[A woman's] knowledge must be various, and her powers of reason unawed by authority..." Notwithstanding this, there has been no complete edition of her letters and the new Pickering & Chatto edition of The Works of Maria Edgeworth has only just started to appear. This new project provides scholars with immediate access to the original manuscript letters, notebooks and manuscripts and will facilitate a deeper examination of all aspects of Maria Edgeworth's life and work from her education and upbringing to her reading and her creative works. It brings together the two major Edgeworth collections at the Bodleian Library and the National Library of Ireland as well as further important manuscripts from scattered collections. It provides a platform for the study of: Anglo-Irish Literature Female Education Literary Life and Society, c.1789-1850 Women's Writing and Women's Reading Life in Ireland c.1750-1850 The History of the Novel Part 1 covers the Edgeworth Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. These relate to Maria, Richard and many other Edgeworth family members. This first part falls largely into three categories: literary manuscripts correspondence miscellaneous papers The literary manuscripts feature over 15 notebooks with draft passages for published and unpublished works; story plans, poems and notes on reading. There are also draft and fair copies of published works, anecdotes and outlines of plays. Among the highlights are: Enigma, a poem by Maria Edgeworth Notes for Harry and Lucy Two notebooks compiled by Mrs Honora Edgeworth recording her children's responses to lessons forming the basis of Practical Education Drafts of On the Education of the Poor in the hand of Maria Edgeworth Notes for The Parent's Assistant Two outlines for Ormond A fragmentary draft of Harrington An account of hawking for Helen together with a lost outline A notebook entitled Travellers & Popular Tales Notes for an unwritten novel about Ireland An outline of a story entitled The Life and Death of a Divorcée A copy of The Devil's Thoughts by S T Coleridge, "as read by Sir Humphry Davy" "Lines written by Mrs Barbauld in her 80th year" The correspondence is equally rich and includes c.2000 letters from Maria Edgeworth, with many more from other family members. Women, Education and Literature - The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849 The highly collaborative nature of the literary and educational work of the Edgeworth family is revealed. Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817), inventor, educator and writer was also the wealthy landlord of substantial estates in Edgeworthstown in County Longford, Ireland. Married four times, he was the father of 22 children of which Maria was the second eldest to survive. Radical and eccentric, he brought up his children to be observant and inquiring and introduced them to the ideas of his friends such as Erasmus Darwin, Mrs Barbauld, Joseph Priestley, Sir Humphry Davy, John Herschel and Thomas Day. Richard Lovell Edgeworth played a major role in proposing topics for Maria to write on, editing her work and incorporating his own work with it. This process can be examined as can the help provided by Maria's brothers and sisters in gathering information and details for her works. Whilst correspondence in Part 1 is principally for the period 1818 to 1849 - after her father's death, the correspondence in Part 2 from the National Library of Ireland principally covers the earlier period of her life. In Part 2 we make available the substantial collection of Edgeworth Papers at the National Library of Ireland. These concentrate on the period up to 1817 - the period in which Maria Edgeworth enjoyed her greatest literary success - including the publication of: Letters to Literary Ladies (1795); The Parent's Assistant (1796); Practical Education (1798); Castle Rackrent (1800); Belinda (1801); Moral Tales (1801); Leonora (1806); Tales of Fashionable Life (1809-1812); Patronage (1814); Ormond and Harrington (both 1817). The correspondence files - principally letters to and from Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Maria Edgeworth - are especially rich. [See in particular MS 10166/7 (1-1409)]. The development of Maria Edgeworth's own writing can be traced through letters discussing the origins, preliminary versions, publication and critical reception of Castle Rackrent, Letters for Literary Ladies and many other works. Contemporary criticism of her works includes Joseph Priestley's criticisms of Practical Education (in a letter of 1780) and Mrs Inchbald's views of Ormond (1817). Maria's schooldays and family life are well documented, including her own reflections on the education and upbringing of women and consideration of works such as Rousseau's Emile and Locke's On Education. Views of contemporary literature include discussions of Mansfield Park, Emma, Franklin's Autobiography, Mme de Stael's Delphine, Erasmus Darwin's The Temple of Nature, Godwin's Things as They are, Scott's Waverley and Lady of the Lake, Barbauld's Evenings at Home, Lewis's The Monk, Hume's Essays, Mrs Inchbald's A Simple Story, and many other novels. Also discussed are subjects such as, contemporary publishing practice; fees and advances; women's magazines; and literary society. A whole file concerns the family's tour to Belgium and France, August 1802 - March 1803. [See MS 10166/7 (301-361) and also Maria's Notebook on Paris in MS 10166/7 (366A)]. There are descriptions of Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Chantilly and Paris; and of parties, theatrical performances, the Louvre, Morellet and his house, Mme Lavoisier, Bonaparte, the intrepid Montgolfier brothers and their ballooning exploits, French society, and Maria's rejection of a proposal from Edelcrantz. Richard Lovell Edgeworth's intellectual and business pursuits are also well covered including his correspondence with Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Humphry Davy, Malthus, Newcomen, Sir Walter Scott, Sydney Smith, Strutt, Telford, Watt and Windham. The literary manuscripts covered in this second part of the microfilm project include four albums of family verse; Maria's Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth Esq., with numerous corrections in her own hand; a commonplace book; and two more notebooks. The collection also includes Maria's diary for 1803 and her account books for 1826-9 and 1837-8. As Barbara Rosenbaum observes: "Edgeworth gathered information for her work from a wide range of sources, and her voluminous correspondence is full of material, both factual and literary, later incorporated into published works". Barbara Rosenbaum and Pamela White Index of English and Literary Manuscripts, Volume IV, Part 1 (Mansell, 1982) The core of the National Library of Ireland material is to be found in the 9 boxes of Correspondence and Papers making up MS 10166/7 (items 1-1409). Box 10 has additions to this group of papers. Other important groups of material are MS 11132 (1- 7) which contains correspondence to and from both Maria and her father, c.1760-1849; MS 13176 (1-50): Edgeworth - Beaufort Papers; MS 21740: 17 autograph letters from Maria Edgeworth to Louisa Hope, most of social, literary and biographical interest, 1818-43; MS 22470 (1-3): Correspondence between Thomas Day and R L Edgeworth; MS 22471 (1-7): Correspondence of R L Edgeworth on Education; MS 22472 (1-3): Correspondence of R L Edgeworth on Literary subjects; and Albums of Family Verses and other literary material - 7 volumes contained in MS 23444-8 and MS 23505-6. Here are just two extracts from the collection of material in Part 2 to give a fuller flavour of the content: MS 10166/7 (134): 7 November 1795 - ME to Sophy Ruxton Hugh Trevor - Traditions - Letters for Literary Ladies We are all much entertained by your newspaper, especially by the Ball of Fire, and the Horse of Fire - my Father is very thankful to you for your patient extract from the Repertory of Arts.
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