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Auteur(s) : Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)
Titre(s) : Maria Edgeworth's letters from Ireland [Texte imprimé] / selected & edited by Valerie Pakenham
Publication : Dublin : Lilliput press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (448 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"1 January 2018 will be the 250th anniversary of Maria Edgeworth's birth. Valerie
Pakenham's sparkling new selection of over four hundred letters, many hitherto unpublished,
will help to celebrate her memory. Born in England, she was brought to live in Ireland
at the age of fourteen and spent most of the rest of her life at the family home at
Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford. Encouraged by her remarkable father, Richard Lovell
Edgeworth, whose memoirs she edited, she became, in turn, famous for her children's
stories, her practical guides to education and her novels - or, as she preferred to
call them, ̀Moral Tales'. By 1813, when visiting London, she was, as Byron testified,
as great a literary lion as he had been the season before, and she was hugely admired
by fellow novelists Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. Maria Edgeworth's posthumous
fame has dwindled and only her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800), a brilliant burlesque
account of the Irish squirearchy, is still widely read. She was, however, a prolific
and fascinating letter writer. She insisted that her letters were for private consumption
only, but after her death, her stepmother and half-sisters produced a private memoir
for friends using carefully selected extracts. Their literary quality was spotted
by Augustus Hare, whose shortened version, The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth,
appeared in 1894. In the 1970s Maria's great great niece, Christina Colvin edited
Maria Edgeworth's Letters from England and Maria Edgeworth in France & Switzerland.
No one, however, has revisited fully Maria's original letters from the place she loved
and knew best: Ireland. Two of her half-sisters and her stepmother were gifted artists,
and Valerie Pakenham has been able to use many of their unpublished drawings and sketches
to illustrate this book."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Pakenham, Valerie (1939-....). Éditeur scientifique
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781843517191. - ISBN 1843517191. - ISBN 978-1-84351-734-4 (br.). - ISBN 1843517345
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45431559r
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