Practical Education

by Maria Edgeworth

A collection of 44 interesting and important works reprinted in photo-facsimile in 89 volumes

Genres: Nonfiction, Irish Literature, Education

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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.