ABSTRACT This essay examines Maria Edgeworth’s rewriting of masculine political power and visibility, focusing on collaborations with her father and brother on explicitly political projects to show how she gained a political life of her own through the personae and authorial disguises she adopted in these “partnership” works. Far from simply “illustrating and manufacturing” her father’s ideas, as she claimed, and contrary to her assertion that “all the general ideas [in her writings] originated with him,” Edgeworth herself often designed and directed her “collaborative” publications. She thus assumed the dress of a masculine political life in print form, and was to some extent the inventor of her father’s public and political identity. This argument runs contrary to views of Edgeworth as simply her father’s copyist, and complicates the “question of authorship” identified as a central problem in Marilyn Butler’s biography of Edgeworth and much subsequent criticism. I suggest that while Edgeworth drew on her father’s conversation and liberally shared stock of experiences and information, we can find evidence of her own political philosophy in the works written by her under male names, culminating in her editing and rewriting of her father’s “life” in the Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth.

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玛丽亚·埃奇沃思的政治生活

摘要本文考察了玛丽亚·埃奇沃思对男性政治权力和知名度的改写，重点关注与她父亲和兄弟在明确的政治项目上的合作，以展示她如何通过在这些“合作伙伴关系”中采用的人格和作者伪装获得自己的政治生活作品。与她声称的“说明和制造”她父亲的想法不同，与她断言“[在她的作品中]所有的一般想法都起源于他”的说法相反，御剑自己经常设计和指导她的“合作”出版物。因此，她以印刷品的形式呈现出男性化的政治生活，并且在某种程度上是她父亲公共和政治身份的发明者。这个论点与御剑只是她父亲的抄写员的观点相反，并使“作者身份问题”复杂化，该问题在玛丽莲·巴特勒的御剑传记和随后的许多批评中被认为是一个核心问题。我建议，虽然御剑借鉴了她父亲的谈话并自由地分享了大量的经验和信息，但我们可以在她以男性名字写的作品中找到她自己的政治哲学的证据，最终在她对父亲“生活”的编辑和改写中达到高潮在理查德·洛弗尔·埃奇沃思的回忆录中。