Abstract
Maria Edgeworth is well known for her didactic tales and her production of regionally accurate narratives. Much less is known, however, about her juvenilia and the influence this writing had on her adult work. In the following article, I examine numerous words identifiable in Maria Edgeworth’s juvenilia drama, The Double Disguise (1786), which antedate the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) quotations attributed to her adult work. Through examining the similarities in word choices and vocabulary between The Double Disguise and her later work, this article argues for the importance of juvenilia on the development of Edgeworth’s adult authorship.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 169-178 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Estudios Irlandeses |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Mar 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright the Author(s) 2019. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- Castle Rackrent
- Irish English
- Juvenilia
- Maria Edgeworth
- OED
- Oxford English Dictionary
- The Double Disguise