Avenues to Success for 01/26/09

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwords: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
 - Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, Anglo-Irish novelist

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Maria Edgeworth - The Literary Gothic

...Maria's first publication was "Letters for Literary Ladies" (1795), a plea for the reform of woman's education. In it she expressed view very closely akin to those of her father.   Her critics have claimed that much of her work was due to her father's influence, and it is argued that, but for him, some of her works would be free from the frequent moralising which makes them somewhat less palatable to the uncommitted reader. ...

Sally Richardson reviews Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation - Irish Democrat

...THE TRAUMA and dislocation of the Act of Union of 1800 is at the centre of Maria Edgeworth's writing. Her early published works contributed to the revolutionary ferment that preceded it and in her subsequent writing we find her attempting to understand and shape Irish identity in a new situation where the government was no longer even in the same country. ...

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