The Purple Jar
1796
First Published
3.44
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages
Of the dozens of stories Edgeworth wrote in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this parable of desire and disappointment retains an extraordinary hold on the public and literary imagination. The story is about a young girl, Rosamund, who needs new pair of shoes but is attracted to a purple jar that she sees displayed in a shop window.
Avg Rating
3.44
Number of Ratings
86
5 STARS
14%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
42%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
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.
