Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

(1768–1849) writer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland writer, known for Belinda|The Parent's Assistant|Castle Rackrent|Leonora|Ormond|Patronage|Practical Education|The Absentee|Harrington, a Tale; and Ormond, a Tale|Comic Dramas, in Three Acts|Early Lessons|Essay on Irish Bulls|Frank: a Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons|Harry and Lucy Concluded|Letters for Literary Ladies|Moral Tales|Moral Tales for Young People|Popular Tales|Readings on Poetry|Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth|Tales of Fashionable Life|The Contrast|The Modern Griselda; a Tale|Tomorrow; or the Dangers of Delay|Works of Maria Edgeworth.

About Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics, and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today is most commonly associated with Castle Rackrent, her first novel, in which she, while Anglican herself, used the voice of an Irish Catholic character to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class.

Known for:

Belinda|The Parent's Assistant|Castle Rackrent|Leonora|Ormond|Patronage|Practical Education|The Absentee|Harrington, a Tale; and Ormond, a Tale|Comic Dramas, in Three Acts|Early Lessons|Essay on Irish Bulls|Frank: a Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons|Harry and Lucy Concluded|Letters for Literary Ladies|Moral Tales|Moral Tales for Young People|Popular Tales|Readings on Poetry|Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth|Tales of Fashionable Life|The Contrast|The Modern Griselda; a Tale|Tomorrow; or the Dangers of Delay|Works of Maria Edgeworth

Notable works:

Castle Rackrent

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