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A Short Biography of Maria Edgeworth

Author Name:

Maria Edgeworth

Born As:

Maria Edgeworth

Other Names:

Maria Edgeworth

Born:

1 Jan 1767

Died:

22 May 1849




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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Letters for Literary Ladies - 1795
The Parent's Assistant - 1796
Practical Education - 1798 - 2 vols; collaborated with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent - 1800 - novel
Early Lessons - 1801
Belinda - - 1801 - novel
Essay on Irish Bulls - 1802 - political, collaborated with her father
Popular Tales - 1804
The Modern Griselda - 1804
Moral Tales for Young People - 1805 - 6 vols
Leonora - 1806 - written during the French excursion
Tales of Fashionable Life - 1809 - first in a series, includes The Absentee
Ennui - 1809 - novel
The Absentee - 1812 - novel
Patronage - 1814 - novel
Harrington - 1817 - novel
Ormond - 1817 - novel
Comic Dramas - 1817
Memoirs - 1820 - edited her father's memoirs
Early Lessons - 1822 - sequels to some of the tales
Helen - 1834 - novel                          
Mother Anna Maria Elers
Father Richard Lovell Edgeworth