Maria Edgeworth's Letters from Ireland Edgeworth Maria Paperback
Maria Edgeworth's Letters from Ireland Edgeworth Maria Paperback 1 January 2018 will be the 250th anniversary of Maria Edgeworth's birth. Born in England, she was brought to live in Ireland at the…
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Maria Edgeworth's Letters from Ireland Edgeworth Maria Paperback
1 January 2018 will be the 250th anniversary of Maria Edgeworth's birth. Born in England, she was brought to live in Ireland at the age of fourteen and spent most of the rest of her life at the family home at Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford. Valerie Pakenham's sparkling new selection of over four hundred letters, many hitherto unpublished, will help to celebrate her memory.
By 1813, when visiting London, she was, as Byron testified, as great a literary lion as he had been the season before, and she was hugely admired by fellow novelists Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. Encouraged by her remarkable father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, whose memoirs she edited, she became, in turn, famous for her children's stories, her practical guides to education and her novels - or, as she preferred to call them, 'Moral Tales'. Maria Edgeworth's posthumous fame has dwindled and only her first novel, Castle