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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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“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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