Maria Edgeworth (Zimmern 1883)

Eminent Women Series

EDITED BY JOHN H. INGRAM

MARIA EDGEWORTH

BY

HELEN ZIMMERN.

LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.

1883.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE.

PREFACE.

Though many notices of Miss Edgeworth have appeared from time to time, nothing approaching to a Life of her has been published in this country. As I have had the good fortune to have access to an unpublished memoir of her, written by her step-mother, as well as to a large number of her private letters, I am enabled to place what I hope is at least an authentic biography before the reader. Besides much kindness received from the members of Miss Edgeworth's family, I have also to acknowledge my obligations for help afforded in the preparation of this little book to Mrs. and Miss Ticknor of Rhode Island, U.S.A., Mrs. Le Breton, Sir Henry Holland, Bart., the Rev. Canon Holland, the Rev. Dr. Sadler, and Mr. F. Y. Edgeworth.

H. Z.

London, August 1883.

CONTENTS.

	PAGE
CHAPTER I.—Introductory	1
CHAPTER II.—Early Years	7
CHAPTER III.—Girlhood	15
CHAPTER IV.—Womanhood	26
CHAPTER V.—"Practical Education."—Children's Books	34
CHAPTER VI.—Irish and Moral Tales	50
CHAPTER VII.—In France and at Home	62
CHAPTER VIII.—Fashionable and Popular Tales	82
CHAPTER IX.—Visit to London.—Mr. Edgeworth's Death	103
CHAPTER X.—Later Novels.—General Estimate	115
CHAPTER XI.—Visits Abroad and at Home	139
CHAPTER XII.—Mr. Edgeworth's Memoirs published.—1821 to 1825	154
CHAPTER XIII.—1826 to 1834	171
CHAPTER XIV.—Last Years	194

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