Using an unpublished memoir by Maria Edgeworth’s stepmother and a large store of private letters, Helen Zimmern traces the novelist from her childhood and her long partnership with her father to the Irish household at Edgeworthstown. Chapters cover Practical Education, the children’s books, the Irish and moral tales and the novels, with a fair judgment of her style.
An early and well-sourced life of the author of Castle Rackrent, for readers of Regency fiction. Download the free EPUB.