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Maria Edgeworth


Born
in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England
January 01, 1767

Died
May 22, 1849

Genre
Fiction, Children's


Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish gentry-woman, a daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, born in Oxfordshire and later resettling in County Longford. She eventually took over the management of her father's estate in Ireland and dedicated herself to writing novels that encouraged the kind treatment of Irish tenants and the poor by their landlords. ...more

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Average rating: 3.46 · 13,152 ratings · 1,153 reviews · 1,911 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.58 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 1817 — 104 editions
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“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
― Maria Edgeworth
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“Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.”
― Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
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“If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.”
― Maria Edgeworth
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December 2016 Short Story Poll

The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, 75 pages, 1952
 
  60 votes, 23.3%

 
  45 votes, 17.4%

The Pearl by John Steinbeck, 97 pages, 1947
 
  40 votes, 15.5%

 
  36 votes, 14.0%

Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King, 47 pages, 1978
 
  28 votes, 10.9%

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages, 1872
 
  19 votes, 7.4%

Flush by Virginia Woolf, 118 pages, 1933
 
  18 votes, 7.0%

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth, 87 pages, 1800
 
  6 votes, 2.3%

Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano, 123 pages, 1997
 
  4 votes, 1.6%

 
  2 votes, 0.8%

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