ABSTRACT

Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.

part |63 pages

Popular Tales, 1804

chapter |43 pages

Lame Jervas

chapter |15 pages

The Grateful Negro

part |195 pages

Early Lessons

chapter |44 pages

Harry and Lucy

chapter |55 pages

Harry and Lucy

chapter |69 pages

Frank

chapter |9 pages

The Cherry Orchard