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    Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist...
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  • Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth. It was first published in three volumes by Joseph Johnson of London. The novel was Edgeworth's second published, and...
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    Archive Edgeworth, Richard Lovell; Maria Edgeworth (1820). The Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Vol. 1. London: Hunter, Cradock & Joy. Edgeworth, Richard...
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  • politician Maria Durhuus (born 1977), Danish politician Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature Maria Luisa Escolar...
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  • an American educator and correspondent with the children's writer Maria Edgeworth. Rachel Mordecai was born in Virginia, the eldest daughter and second...
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    There she helped raise his children from his first marriage, including Maria Edgeworth, and two children of her own. Returning to England she fell ill with...
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    Castle Rackrent (category Novels by Maria Edgeworth)
    novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800. Unlike many of her other novels, which were heavily "edited" by her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, before...
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    Francis Beaufort Edgeworth was the son of politician, writer, and inventor Richard Lovell Edgeworth (father also of the writer Maria Edgeworth), by his fourth...
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    proverb, as in Harry and Lucy Concluded (1825) by the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, All play and no work makes...
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  • Ennui (novel) (category Novels by Maria Edgeworth)
    Ennui is a novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1809. It is a fictitious memoir of the Earl of Glenthorn, an English man who experiences excessive boredom...
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    the substance became a crucial theme running through the writings of Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton. Many characters in the work of contemporary Irish...
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    set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. The novel opens with...
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  • Maria Edgeworth 1802 in literature – Delphine – Germaine de Staël; René – François-René de Chateaubriand. Birth of Victor Hugo. Death of Lydia Maria Child...
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  • Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), Anglo-Irish scientist, inventor, writer and educator, father of Maria Edgeworth and Michael Pakenham Edgeworth His son...
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    the wife of a hero, but she succeeds uncommonly well in her part". Maria Edgeworth, however, found her "delightful" and "amiable" and commented that:...
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    Edgeworth, an Irish-born botanist and official in the Bengal Civil Service, then stationed in India, and for his half-sister, writer Maria Edgeworth....
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  • Henry Essex Edgeworth (1745 – 22 May 1807), also known as L'Abbé Edgeworth de Firmont, was an Irish Catholic priest and confessor of Louis XVI. He was...
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    leader as a martyr in the cause of democratic reform. Complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Memoirs of Captain Rock is a saga, not of Anglo-Irish...
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  • who had an extensive correspondence with the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth. Marx Lazarus was born in 1822 in Wilmington, North Carolina, the son...
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    Humphry Davy John Disney David Douglas Maria Edgeworth Pierce Egan Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin Grace Elliott Maria Fitzherbert Elizabeth Fry David Garrick...
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    relocated there in 1836. The school was named in honor of Irish writer Maria Edgeworth. From early on, it became a bedroom community for managers and professionals...
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    2016. Edgeworth, Maria (1798). "1". Practical Education. Vol. I. Edgeworth, Maria; Edgeworth, Richard Lovell (1825). Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern...
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  • wikisource.org. Retrieved 3 January 2024. Nash, J. (2006). New Essays on Maria Edgeworth. Ashgate Pub. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-7546-5175-8. Retrieved 8 January 2017...
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    interested in native dialects: Scottish for Sir Walter Scott, Irish for Maria Edgeworth. Gaskell, influenced by her husband's work, did not hesitate to give...
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    Cowper Frank Cowper Maria Edgeworth Evelyn Everett-Green Juliana Horatia Ewing Frederic W. Farrar G. E. Farrow Agnes Giberne Anna Maria Hall L. T. Meade...
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    Cowper Frank Cowper Maria Edgeworth Evelyn Everett-Green Juliana Horatia Ewing Frederic W. Farrar G. E. Farrow Agnes Giberne Anna Maria Hall L. T. Meade...
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  • spines (1980s), and the most recent editions (2000s). The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth According to Mark by Penelope Lively The Acts of King Arthur and His...
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    intellectual Maria Edgeworth, botanist Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, economist Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and priest Henry Essex Edgeworth—lived at the estate...
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  • O'Brien, William Trevor, John Banville, Colm Tóibín, David Lodge, Maria Edgeworth, J. G. Farrell and Sheridan le Fanu. The first mentioned exclusion...
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  • outstanding morals of one young boy above the rapscallion nature of another. Maria Edgeworth (1776–1849) was another prominent author of moral tales, writing about...
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