The Works of Maria Edgeworth, Part II Vol 10

by Marilyn Butler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000749496
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.

Table of Contents

Volume 10. The Parent’s Assistant, Lazy Lawrence, Waste Not, Want Not, Forgive and Forget, Simple Susan, The Mimic, The Orphans, The Basket-Woman, The White Pigeon, Moral Tales for Young People, Forester, Angelina