Författare: Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) 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 views on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor. A Trinity College and Corpus Christi alumnus, he is credited for creating, among other inventions, a machine to measure the size of a plot of land. He also made strides in the developing educational methods. Edgeworth sat in Grattan”s Parliament from 1798 until the Act of Union in 1801, and advocated Catholic Emancipation and parliamentary reform. He was a founder-member of the Royal Irish Academy.