Maria Edgeworth
Author · 15 books
Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish gentry-woman, born in Oxfordshire and later resettling in County Longford. She eventually took over the management of her father's estate in Ireland and dedicated herself to writing novels that encouraged the kind treatment of Irish tenants and the poor by their landlords.
Books
Harrington
1817
Ennui
1809
Helen
1834
The Absentee
1812
Castle Rackrent and Ennui
1809
Belinda
1801
Castle Rackrent
1800
The Purple Jar
1796
Chloe Plus Olivia
An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
1994
Ormond
1817
Tomorrow
1823
Letters for Literary Ladies
1798
The Parent's Assistant
1796
Leonora
1806
The Grateful Negro
2008
