Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults‘ and children’s literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children’s literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that show the best of this author’s work:
– The Grateful Negro
– The Prussian Vase
– The Good Aunt
– The Good French Governess
– The Orphans
– The False Key
– Tarlton
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Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults‘ and children’s literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children’s literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.
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