The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth (Complete)

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465521089
Total Pages : 748 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth (Complete) written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1895-01-01 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her later years Miss Edgeworth was often asked to write a biographical preface to her novels. She refused. "As a woman," she said, "my life, wholly domestic, can offer nothing of interest to the public." Incidents indeed, in that quiet happy home existence, there were none to narrate, nothing but the ordinary joys and sorrows which attend every human life. Yet the letters of one so clear-sighted and sagacious—one whom Macaulay considered to be the second woman of her age—are valuable, not only as a record of her times, and of many who were prominent figures in them: but from the picture they naturally give of a simple, honest, generous, high-minded character, filled from youth to age with love and goodwill to her fellow-creatures, and a desire for their highest good. An admirable collection of Miss Edgeworth's letters was printed after her death by her stepmOther and lifelong friend, but only for private circulation. As all her generation has long since passed away, Mr. Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown now permits that these letters should be read beyond the limits of the family circle. An editor has had little more to do than to make a selection, and to write such a thread of biography as might unite the links of the chain. AUGUSTUS J.C. HARE. In the flats of the featureless county of Longford stands the large and handsome but unpretentious house of Edgeworthstown. The scenery here has few natural attractions, but the loving care of several generations has gradually beautified the surroundings of the house, and few homes have been more valued or more the centre round which a large family circle has gathered in unusual sympathy and love. In his Memoirs, Mr. Edgeworth tells us how his family, which had given a name to Edgeworth, now Edgeware, near London, came to settle in Ireland more than three hundred years ago. Roger Edgeworth, a monk, having taken advantage of the religious changes under Henry VIII., had married and left two sons, who, about 1583, established themselves in Ireland. Of these, Edward, the elder, became Bishop of Down and Connor, and died without children; but the younger, Francis, became the founder of the family of Edgeworthstown. Always intensely Protestant, often intensely extravagant, each generation of the Edgeworth family afterwards had its own picturesque story, till Richard Edgeworth repaired the broken fortunes of his house, partly by success as a lawyer, partly by his marriage, in 1732, with Jane Lovell, daughter of a Welsh judge. Their eldest son, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, was born in 1744, and educated in his boyhood at Drogheda School and Dublin University. Strong, handsome, clever, ingenious, and devoted to sports of every kind, he was a general favourite. But his high spirits often led him into scrapes. The most serious of these occurred during the festivities attendant on his eldest sister's marriage with Mr. Fox of Fox Hall, at which he played at being married to a young lady who was present, by one of the guests dressed up in a white cloak, with a door-key for a ring. This foolish escapade would not deserve the faintest notice, if it had not been seriously treated as an actual marriage by a writer in the Quarterly Review.

The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734054699
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth written by Maria Edgeworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth by Maria Edgeworth

Letters for Literary Ladies

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108018874
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Letters for Literary Ladies written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Edgeworth's first published work (1795), presenting a staunch defence of women's education in a dramatic series of fictionalised letters.

Belinda

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Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Belinda written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Castle Rackrent

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Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Castle Rackrent written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Absentee

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Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775415929
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book The Absentee written by Maria Edgeworth and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.

Laughing Feminism

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814330548
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Laughing Feminism written by Audrey Bilger and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.

Ennui

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Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728185366
Total Pages : 243 pages
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Download or read book Ennui written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Glenthorn is bored and lacking oomph. But before you feel sorry for him, it is worth knowing that he has a pile of money, a grand title, estates in England and Ireland and no stress. That is until he finds out he is not Lord Glenthorn, the Anglo-Irish earl. He is in fact the peasant Christy O'Donoghoe, which is a fly in the ointment for his efforts to provide for the woman he loves. At the same time, he gets caught up in the violent Irish Rebellion of 1798. Can he shake off the ennui, become a self-made man and win the hand of his love? Those who enjoy Jane Austen's novels, including 'Persuasion', 'Sense and Sensibility', and 'Pride and Prejudice', will love 'Ennui'. Like Austen, Maria Edgeworth has a gift for gently exposing the hypocrisy and accidental comedy of Britain's 19th century upper-middle class. First published in 1809, 'Ennui' is a didactic novel, which means it aims to teach the reader a moral lesson - like 'Aesop's Fables'. The Irish writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was highly regarded in her day as a pioneer of early 19th century fiction and children's literature. A friend of the novelist Sir Walter Scott ('Ivanhoe', 'Rob Roy'), she was active and vocal about political and estate reform. Today, she is rather underappreciated - and overshadowed - by other 19th century satirical novelists like Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope. A prolific writer, Edgeworth's best-known works include 'Ennui', 'The Dun' and 'Belinda', which was controversial in its day for featuring inter-racial marriage.

Belinda

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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Belinda written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maria Edgeworth's Irish Writing

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312177461
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Maria Edgeworth's Irish Writing written by Brian Hollingworth and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maria Edgeworth is often regarded as a pioneer in the development of the regional novel and the use of vernacular language. This book is the first to offer an extensive discussion of all four of Edgeworth's major Irish tales, examining her attitudes towards language and regionalism in the context of her writing about Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories for Children

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Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The Parent's Assistant, Or, Stories for Children written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Castle Rackrent

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Publisher : Standard Ebooks
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Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Castle Rackrent written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-08-28T18:08:16Z with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century Ireland, a privileged class of Anglo-Irish landowners known as the “Protestant Ascendancy” lived on great estates, with the mostly-Catholic Irish as their tenants and servants. Maria Edgeworth was part of this Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Castle Rackrent, her best known novel, satirizes the failures and follies of her Anglo-Irish peers, their mismanagement of their estates, and their abuse of their Irish tenants. The narrator of Castle Rackrent is Thady Quirk, whose family has served on the Rackrent estate for generations. Thady relates the life stories of four successive lords of Castle Rackrent and how their individual character and personality affect the lives and families that depend on them. Castle Rackrent was one of the first historical novels written in English, and Walter Scott later cited it as inspiration for his own Scottish historical novels. Edgeworth included two sets of explanatory notes on aspects of Irish life and culture for her English readers, footnotes in the main text and a “glossary” added in the second edition. These have been merged into a single set of endnotes in this Standard Ebooks edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

The Blue Jar Story Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book The Blue Jar Story Book written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Fashionable Life

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Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Tales of Fashionable Life written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters for Literary Ladies

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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Letters for Literary Ladies written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harrington and Ormond

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Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Harrington and Ormond written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales and Novels

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Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book Tales and Novels written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: