| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's work... | Thomas Moore | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... ' | William Wordsworth | Maria Edgeworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of M... | Anne Lutton | Maria Edgeworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'. | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Helen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion t... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Belinda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Comic Dramas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost f... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Mar... | John Horseman | Maria Edgeworth | Letters for Literary Ladies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of a Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to a... | Sir Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Maria Edgeworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Pr... | Lucy Aikin | Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "P... | Martha Aikin | Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life":
'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morr... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | ?Maria ?Edgeworth | 'To-morrow' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | Richard Lovell AND Maria Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish ... | Sydney Smith | Maria Edgeworth | Eunice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell' | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.' | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel' | Mary Shelley | Maria Edgeworth | Comic dramas, in three acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus' | Mary Shelley | Maria Edgeworth | Harrington, a tale, and Ormond, a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | Comic Dramas, in Three Acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.
[...]
'Friday... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth and R.L. Edgeworth | Essay on Irish Bulls | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs.
[...]
'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I th... | Claire Clairmont | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun by Himself and Concluded by His Daughter, Maria Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'story of the Basket Woman' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in
the Evening.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'. | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Barring Out' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Nov. 7th. [...] sit upon the divan & read Simple Susan with Johnny & M. G.'
[also records reading thi... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Simple Susan' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] Nov. 5th. [...] After dinner [...] sit upon the divan in Marie Ivanovna's cabinet &
read Madlle. Pan... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Mademoiselle Panache' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon
women.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Nine Days' Wonder' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read
a little of the Bl... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Black Lane' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'My very dear Mama / Excuse m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Manoeuvring | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'I agree that Caroline [in Ed... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819:
'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim an... | Arabella Moulton-Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | "Simple Susan" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827:
'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor ... | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Lif... | Sir William Elford | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Cherry Orchard' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | 'Rosamond' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Maria Edgeworth | Moral Tales for Young People | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever... | Susan Ferrier | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Early Lessons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'. | George Crabbe | Maria Edgeworth | [Dramas] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Maria Edgeworth | [Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourab... | Samuel Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | elder children of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [various books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | a son of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | a son of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | children of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their ... | two sons of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [children's books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their ... | | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, ... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [title page of a children's book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Old Poz | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Maria Edgeworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".' | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee' | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Maria Edgeworth | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children | Maria Edgeworth | [?The] Purple Jar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children | Maria Edgeworth | Simple Susan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Simple Susan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | [?The] Purple Jar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |