
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth (Dodo Press)
Autobiography Of The Anglo-Irish Novelist Who Worked Strenuously For The Relief Of Irish Peasants.
1894
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Autobiography of the Anglo-Irish novelist who worked strenuously for the relief of Irish peasants.
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Maria Edgeworth
Author · 23 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.