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Maria Edgeworth

Female : Novelist & Children's Writer. Daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish Landowner and MP. She lived on, was agent & secretary of, the family estate of Edgeworthstown in Ireland from the age of 15 until her death
Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Black Bourton, Oxfordshire

Date of Birth : 1767 Date of Death : 1849 Age : 82
1795-1800
Letters for Literary Ladies
(1795 J Johnson, London) (1799 for J Johnson. 2nd Ed)
The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children
(1795 J Johnson) - 3 vols. Anon
(1796 Johnson. 2nd Ed) - 3 vols
Practical Education
(1798 for J Johnson) - 2 vols (1811. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols.
[With her father R L Edgeworth]
A Rational Primer
(1799 J Johnson)
The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children
(1800 J Johnson) - 6 vols. Enlarged Ed
Castle Rackrent : An Hibernian Tale
(1800 Luke Hansard for J Johnson) - Anon

1801-1805
Practical Education
(1801 J Johnson) - 3 vols. with R L Edgeworth
Early Lessons
(1801 Joseph Johnson)
(1809 J Johnson) - 5 vols in 1
Belinda
(1801 Joseph Johnson) - 3 vols
Belinda
(1801 Colbert & Stockdale, Dublin) - 2 vols
Moral Tales for Young People
(1801 J Johnson) - 5 vols
The Mental Thermometer
(1801)
An Essay on Irish Bulls
(1802 for J Johnson, London) (1803 2nd Ed) (1815 4th Ed) - with R L Edgeworth
Popular Tales
(1805 J Johnson) - 2 vols
The Modern Griselda : A Tale
(1805 for J Johnson. 2nd Ed)

1806-1810
Leonora
(1806 for J Johnson, London) - 2 vols
The Match Girl : A Novel
(1808 J Dennett for J F Hughes, London) - 3 vols
An Essay on Irish Bulls
(1808 London. 3rd Ed) - with Richard Edgeworth
Essays on Professional Education
(1809 J Johnson) - by R L Edgeworth but Maria contributed to it
Ennui
(1809)
Tales of Fashionable Life, 2 Series
(1809-12 J Johnson) - 6 vols

1811-1815
The Absentee
(1812)
Vivian
(1812)
Patronage
(1813 J Johnson) - 4 vols
Continuation of Early Lessons
(1814 J Johnson, London) - 2 vols
Patronage
(1814 J Johnson) - 4 vols
The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children
(1815 R Hunter, London) - 6 vols in 3

1816-1820
Readings on Poetry
(1816 R Hunter) - with R L Edgeworth
Comic Dramas in Three Acts
(1817 R Hunter, London)
Offered in 1998 for £320
Harrington : A Tale & Ormond : A Tale
(1817 for R Hunter, London) - 3 vols
Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, concluded by ME
(1820 Hunter) - 2 vols

1821-1825
Rosamond : A Sequel to Early Lessons
(1821 Hunter & Baldwin, Cradock & Joy) - 2 vols
Frank, A Sequel to Early Lessons
(1822 R Hunter) - 3 vols
(1825 Hunter & Baldwin. 2nd Ed) - 3 vols
Harry and Lucy Concluded : Being the Last Part of Early Lessons
(1825 R Hunter, London) - 4 vols
Offered in 1996 for £250
(1827 Cradock & Joy. 2nd Ed) - 4 vols
Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces
(1825 R Hunter, London) - 14 vols

1826-1900
Little Plays for Children
(1827 R Hunter)
Garry Owen, or The Snow-Woman - and Poor Bob the Chimney Sweeper
(1832 J Murray)
Tales and Novels
(1832-3 Baldwin & Cradock) (1845 Harper, NY) - 18 Vols
Helen : A Tale
(1834 Bentley) - 3 vols
Tales & Novels
(c1840s Routledge) - 10 vols
Orlandino
(1848 Chambers, Edinburgh)
The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children
(1856 Routledge. New Ed) - Dalziel engravings
The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children
(1860 Milner & Sowerby, Halifax)
The Basket-Woman & Other Stories
(1862 Milner & Sowerby, Halifax)
A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth
(1869) - 3 vols
The Novels
(1893 Dent, London / Dodd Mead, NY) - 12 vols
Ormond : A Tale
(1895 Macmillan) - Carl Schloesser
The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children
(1856 Routledge) - F A Fraser

After 1901
Tales
(ed Austin Dobson) (1903 Wells Gardner, Darton) - Hugh Thomson
Chosen Letters
(ed F V Barry) (1931)
Angelina or L'Amie Inconnue
(1933 Swan Press, Chelsea) - 100. Helen Binyon
Tour in Connemara and the Martins of Ballnahinch
(Ed by Harold Edgeworth Butler)
(1950 Constable) - Ltd Ed 500
Letters - selected from the Lushington Papers
(1953 Golden Cockerel Press) - 300.
With Anna Barbaud. Lettice Sandford
Letters from England
(Ed Christina Colvin) (1971)

READING
19thC
Frances Edgeworth : A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth with a Selection from Her Letters
(1867 PP by J Masters, London) - 3 vols
Grace Oliver : A Study of Maria Edgeworth with Notices of Her father and Friends
(1882 Williams, Boston US)
Helen Zimmern : Mari Edgeworth
(1883 Allen, London)
(Ed) Augustus J C Hare : Life & Letters of Maria Edgeworth
(1894 Edward Arnold) (1895 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols

20thC
Emily Lawless : Maria Edgeworth
(1904 Macmillan)
H J Butler & H E Butler : The Black Book of Edgeworthstown & Other Memories
(1927 Faber)
Bertha C Slade : Maria Edgeworth - A Bibliographical Tribute
(1937 Constable)
Isabel Clarke : Maria Edgeworth, Her Family & Friends
(1949 Hutchinson)
Percy H Newby : Maria Edgeworth
(1950 A Barker)
Elisabeth Inglis-Jones : The Great Maria
(1959 Faber)
James Newcomer : Maria Edgeworth the Novelist 1768-1849
(1967 Texas Christian UP)
O E M Harden : Maria Edgeworth's Art of Prose Fiction
(1971 Mouton, The Hague)
Marilyn Butler : Maria Edgeworth - A Literary Biography
(1972 Clarendon Press, Oxford)
Christina Colvin : Maria Edgeworth in France and Switzerland
(1979 Clarendon Press)

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See also

Everyman Series 1-500
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