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Attention, Please! Maria Edgeworth’s Educational Short Fiction as Literary Experiments with Attention

Hannah Armour and
Sibylle Baumbach

Literature2025, 5(3), 20;https://doi.org/10.3390/literature5030020

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8 August 2025

In her aim to establish education as a scientifically grounded discipline—conceived as “an experimental science” in her non-fictional treatise Practical Education (1798)—Maria Edgeworth pioneered the integration of literary at...

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‘A Great Deal of Noise’: Jane Austen’s Disruptive Children and the Culture of Conversation

Richard De Ritter

Humanities2022, 11(5), 104;https://doi.org/10.3390/h11050104

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25 August 2022

Children occupy a peripheral position in the novels of Jane Austen, with the result that they have received little critical attention. This article proposes that, despite their marginal status, children play a significant role in Austen’s work...

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