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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, 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 · 12,758 ratings · 1,098 reviews · 1,992 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.58 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1817 — 105 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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Polls

April 2018 Short Story Poll

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848
 
  53 votes, 15.0%

 
  44 votes, 12.5%

The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell, 52 pages, 1861
 
  36 votes, 10.2%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages, 1953
 
  35 votes, 9.9%

 
  33 votes, 9.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  31 votes, 8.8%

 
  29 votes, 8.2%

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 48 pages, 1729
 
  25 votes, 7.1%

Fences by August Wilson, 101 pages, 1986
 
  19 votes, 5.4%

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, 72 pages, 1877
 
  16 votes, 4.5%

 
  15 votes, 4.2%

 
  12 votes, 3.4%

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth, 87 pages, 1800
 
  5 votes, 1.4%

353 total votes
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