Biography

Lawless, Emily. Maria Edgeworth, New York: Macmillan. 1904, 220 p.

Offers a biography of Edgeworth from the English Men of Letters series.

Criticism

Gallagher, Catherine. "The Changeling's Debt: Maria Edgeworth's Productive Fictions." In Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820, pp. 257-327. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Discusses Edgeworth's privileged position within the early nineteenth-century literary marketplace.

Gamer, Michael. "Maria Edgeworth and the Romance of Real Life." Novel 34, no. 2 (spring 2001): 232-66.

Analyzes Edgeworth's unique approach to literary realism.

Greenfield, Susan C. "'Abroad and at Home': Sexual Ambiguity, Miscegenation, and Colonial Boundaries in Edgeworth's Belinda." PMLA 112, no. 2 (March 1997): 214-28.

Examines the oppositions between public and private spheres and between England and the British West Indies in Belinda.

Hoad, Neville. "Maria Edgeworth's Harrington: The Price of Sympathetic Representation." In British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature, edited by Sheila A. Spector, pp. 121-...