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Maria Edgeworth
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Elizabeth Inchbald : A Simple Story
"I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a critic, that I might write to Mrs Inchbald about it; but I was so carried away by it that I was totally incapable of thinking of Mrs Inchbald or anything but Miss Milner and Doriforth, who appeared as real persons... I think it the most pathetic and the most powerfully interesting tale I ever read."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Elizabeth Hamilton : The Cottages of Glenburnie
"This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you will like as well as I do. I think it will do a vast deal of good to you, and besides it is extremely interesting, which all good books are not: it has great powers, both comic and tragic."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Vittorio Alfieri : Memoirs
"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present to your servant Richard."
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Germaine De Stael : Corinne
"I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the taste and critical judgement of Italian literature displayed throughout the work. ... My father acknowledges he never read anything more pathetic."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Sir William Jones : Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from various publications consisting of translations, fugitive pieces
then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellany. the metaphysical poetry of India, however, it is not to my taste."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Sargent : The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (The vision of Stonehenge and Mary Queen of Scots)
"I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot live five minutes longer without it? ... Observe, I think the poem as a drama, tiresome in the extreme, and absurd, but I wish you to see the very letters from the man in the quick silver mine which you recommended to me have been seized upon by a poet of no inferior genius. Some of the strophes of the fairies are most beautifullly poetic."
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire
'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much prejudiced against the whole by the first lines I opened upon about the 'paralytic muse' of the man who had been his guardian and is his relation and to whom he had dedicated his first poems, that I could not relish his wit. He may have great talents, but I am sure he has neither a great not good mind; and I feel dislike and disgust for his Lordship.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Wilkins : Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language
?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkins?s Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language. It is a scarce and very ingenious book; some of the phraseology is so much out of the present fashion, that it would make you smile; such as the synonym for a little man, a Dandiprat. Likewise, two prints, one of them a long sheet of men with their throats cut, so as to show the wind pipe whilst working out the different letters of the alphabet. The other print of all the birds and beasts packed ready to go to the ark?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
William Nicholson : The First Principles of Chemistry
?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; there is soap made, and making from a recipe in Nicholson?s Chemistry; there is excellent ink made, and to be made by the same book.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Charles-Louis Montesquieu : Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence
?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishes so much food for thought, it shows how history may be studied for the advantage of mankind, not for the mere purpose of remembering facts and reporting them.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Jean Racine : Andromache
?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in England as the Distressed Mother.) Madame Talma played Andromache and her husband Orestes. .. We read the play in the morning, an excellent precaution, otherwise the novelty of the French mode of declamation would have set my comprehension at defiance.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
James Granger : A Biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution
?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England, who drew a mill, a miller, a bridge, a man and a horse going over the bridge with a sack of corn, all visible, upon a surface that would just cover a sixpence.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Charles Robert Dallas : History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone...
?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, and shall not produce it until it is finished. I found the first hint of it in the strangest place that anybody could invent, for it was in Dallas?s History of the Maroons, and you may read the book to find out, and ten to one you miss it. ? pray read the book, for it is extremely interesting and entertaining.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Maxmillian de Bethune Sully : Memoirs
?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or a palace, and I fancied it was somewhere in the middle of Paris. On the contrary, it is quite in the suburbs.?
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories
?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.?
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) : Mademoiselle de Clermont
?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more interesting to us by having just read the beautiful tale by Madame de Genlis ?Mademoiselle de Clermont?; it would delight my dear Aunt Mary, it is to be had in the first volume of the Petits Romans??
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Breton : Voyage dans les Pays Bas
?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s Petits Romans. I never read a more pathetic and finely written tale.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Berquin : Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instruction and entertainment of children
?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame Gautier, gains upon our esteem every day.?
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures which is never repeated in life.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere : Memoirs
'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying of a fit of the gout translated to his chest, you have done her injustice. We think some of her Memoirs beautifully written and like Rousseau; she was a great woman and died heroically. I think if I had been Mons Roland I should not have shot myself for her sake.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Kalidasa : Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama
'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive sphere. As his eyes are to be continually fixed upon the point of his nose, hers in duteous sympathy must squint in like manner; and if the perfection of his virtue be to sit so still that the birds (vide Sacontala) may unmolested build nests in his hair, his wife cannot better show her affection than by yielding her tresses to them with similar patient stupidity.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
John Aikin : Evenings at Home
[Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent "Evenings at Home" amongst books of mere entertainment. Upon a close examination, it appears to be the best book for young people from seven to ten years old, that has yet appeared. We shall not pretend to enter into a minute examination of it; because, from what we have already said, parents can infer sentiments, and we wish to avoid tedious, unnecessary detail.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) : Early Lessons for Children
'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far the best books of the kind that have ever appeared.' (p406), [ the following pages discuss specific problematic passages]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine : Histoire des Girondins
'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I desired my friend Madame Belloc to use her own discretion in reporting my criticisms on his Histoire des Girondins, but requested that she would convey to him the thanks and admiration of our family for the manner in which he mentioned the Abbe Edgeworth, and our admiration of the beauty of the writing of that whole passage in the work... I feel, and I am sure so will you and Mr. Butler, "What an egotist and what a puppy it is!" But ovation has turned his head.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Thomas Day : Sandford and Merton
[from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natural gifts to the writing of books of an educational nature for children'. [ME spent holidays at Day's home]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Book
Thomas Thomson : Annals of Philosophy
'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to him, I have found No 1 and 2 of Thompson's "Annals of Philosophy" - the Report of the Committee of the H of commons on Transportation to Botany Bay (July 10 12)'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Serial / periodical
[n/a] : Quarterly Review
'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Serial / periodical
Samuel Romilly : [speech on the Slave Trade]
'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of the speech there were but two words which I would have ommitted... Nothing could be added by any person of sound taste and enlarged understanding. I hope that Lady Romilly will be curious to know the two words which I would have ommitted. - The two epithets "horrible" and "foul" page 10 - because in the last lines of the preceding page you had said that vague and general terms of reprobation such as "inhuman", "sanguinary", "detestable" can convey but inadequate notions etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Manuscript: Unknown
Walter Scott : Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since
'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all things; I did not like the hero, and thought the whole more a portraiture of individual than of general manners, but this may have arisen from ignorance, and I find in general the Scotch pleased with it. Walter Scott, if he did not write it, certainly must have had a good deal to do with it, but there is a sort of notice prefix'd to the last edition which they seem to say makes it very improbable that it should have been written by him'.
