Editing Maria Edgeworth (section)

==Legacy==
During the period 1800–1814 (when [[Walter Scott]]'s ''Waverley'' was published) Edgeworth was the most celebrated and successful living English novelist. Her reputation equalled that of [[Fanny Burney]] (Madame d'Arblay) (1752–1840) earlier, in a time that saw a number of other female writers including [[Elizabeth Hamilton (writer)|Elizabeth Hamilton]], [[Amelia Opie]], [[Hannah More]] and [[Elizabeth Inchbald]]. Her only potential male competitor prior to Scott was [[William Godwin]]. She was certainly well received by the critics and literary figures of her time. [[John Wilson Croker|Croker]] (1780–1857) compared her work to ''[[Don Quixote]]'' and ''[[Gil Blas]]'' and to the work of [[Henry Fielding]], while [[Francis Jeffrey]] (1773–1850) called her work 'perfect'.{{sfn|Butler|1972|loc=p.&nbsp;1}}

The [[Ulster Gaelic Society]], established in 1830, succeeded in a single publication in its history, namely the translation into Irish of two stories by Maria Edgeworth:<ref>Tomás Ó hAilín, 'Irish Revival Movements' in Brian Ó Cuív, ''A View of the Irish Language'' (Dublin, 1969), p. 93</ref> Tomás Ó Fiannachtaigh translated ''Forgive and Forget'' and ''Rosanna'' into Irish in the 1830s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Welch|title=A History of Verse Translation from the Irish, 1789–1897|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LFPwTRjMkrUC&pg=PA90|year=1988|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-86140-249-6|pages=90–}}</ref>