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.
Not happy with the ending of the story. I found the story interesting, but then they ended it with a bit that tries to compel you to vaccinate and the man didn't really have enough character progress either.