Maria Edgeworth: Citations en anglais
Vivian (1812), ch. 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 8, p. 8.
Vivian, ch. 7; Tales and Novels, vol. 8, p. 80.
“Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.”
Essay on Irish Bulls (1802), ch. 4; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 123.
Written in collaboration with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”
Castle Rackrent, "Continuation of the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 46.
Letters for Literary Ladies (1795), "Julia and Caroline", Letter 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 13, p. 225.
“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”
"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 213.
“Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.”
"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" (1795); Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 206.
D. H. Lawrence, Introduction to These Paintings (1929); cited from James Boulton (ed.) Late Essays and Articles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) pp. 192-3.
Criticism
“I have made up my mind to like no novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, yours and my own.”
Jane Austen, letter to her niece, Anna Lefroy, 1814; cited from Valerie Grosvenor Myer Jane Austen, Obstinate Heart (New York: Arcade, 1997) p. 196.
Criticism
Castle Rackrent (1800), Preface; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 9.
