WorkMaria Edgeworth

The Parent's Assistant

The Parent's Assistant (1800), Inferred

InferredFuller invokes "Mrs Edgworth" as an emblematic figure of anxious, prudential motherhood—the type of cautious caretaker—without naming a specific work. Hudspeth suggests Maria Edgeworth's The Parent's Assistant (1800) as the likely work referenced through this evocation of Edgeworth's persona as an education writer.

Mentioned

Documented 1849

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1849—

Letter to Ellen Fuller Channing

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mentioned

“then came Mrs Edgworth, Mrs Smith. I became a coward, a caretaker not only for the morrow, but impiously faithless twenty or thirty years ahead.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller invokes "Mrs Edgworth" as an emblematic figure of anxious, prudential motherhood—the type of cautious caretaker—without naming a specific work. Hudspeth suggests Maria Edgeworth's The Parent's Assistant (1800) as the likely work referenced through this evocation of Edgeworth's persona as an education writer.

Hudspeth suggests Maria Edgeworth's The Parent's Assistant (1800) as the likely work referenced through this evocation of Edgeworth's persona as an education writer.