INTRODUCTION
This presentation is on the brilliant children’s literary works, and pedagogy of Maria Edgeworth.
One review of Maria Edgeworth and her contexts was completed by Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske. Within their review of her works, they concluded that her move to Ireland greatly influenced her rationale and views. Kaufman and Fauske stated that “she used her fiction to address the inherent problems of acts delineated by religious, national, racial, class based, sexual, and gendered identities". Edgeworth was an intelligent woman and despite 18th century customs and norms for women, she knew that as far as what is most important, being educated and morally in tuned (knowing right from wrong) outweighs superficiality. Edgeworth also believed in the ability for one to be able to think for oneself as well as the ability to think critically and this is seen throughout different situations in her Rosamond stories.
In this presentation we will discuss the biography of Maria Edgeworth, the political and religious contexts of various selections of her works, the pedagogy and an analysis of a selection of her works, as well as various reviews and criticism of her works.
One review of Maria Edgeworth and her contexts was completed by Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske. Within their review of her works, they concluded that her move to Ireland greatly influenced her rationale and views. Kaufman and Fauske stated that “she used her fiction to address the inherent problems of acts delineated by religious, national, racial, class based, sexual, and gendered identities". Edgeworth was an intelligent woman and despite 18th century customs and norms for women, she knew that as far as what is most important, being educated and morally in tuned (knowing right from wrong) outweighs superficiality. Edgeworth also believed in the ability for one to be able to think for oneself as well as the ability to think critically and this is seen throughout different situations in her Rosamond stories.
In this presentation we will discuss the biography of Maria Edgeworth, the political and religious contexts of various selections of her works, the pedagogy and an analysis of a selection of her works, as well as various reviews and criticism of her works.