Maria Edgeworth

CONTENTS
Early Life
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Father and Daughter
Arrival in Ireland - First Books
Disturbed Days
Ninety-Eight
"Castle Rackrent" - Irish Letters
"Belinda" - Visit to Paris
Middle Life
"Ennui" - "The Absentee" - "Ormond"
Memoir of R. L. Edgeworth - The "Quarterly" - Paris - Geneva
Friendship with Scott
Later Life
Conclusion
Index
Maria Edgeworth was born in England but lived most of her life in Ireland and in her stories, she wrote about the Irish, and portrayed them as they really were. While she never became very well known, she had a substantial influence on Scott, Turgenev, and Thackeray.