ABSTRACT
Theater, trials, and education unite once more in an anecdote from Practical Education, the volume on educational practice that Maria Edgeworth coauthored with her father:
(February 1797.) A little theater was put up for the children, and they acted ‘Justice Poz.’ When the scenes were pulled down afterwards, S [Sneyd, Edgeworth’s brother] was extremely sorry to see the whole theatre vanish; he had succeeded as an actor, and he wished to have another play acted. His father did not wish that he should become ambitious of excelling in this way at ten years old, because, it might have turned his attention away from things of more consequence; and, if he had been much applauded for this talent, he would, perhaps, have been over stimulated.1
