Front matter
Reading edition
——— MARIA EDGEWORTH.
The next volumes in the Famous Women Series will be:
Sarah and Angelina Grimke. By Mrs. Birney.
Anne Bradstreet. By Helen Campbell.
Already published:
George Eliot. By Miss Blind.
Emily Brontë. By Miss Robinson.
George Sand. By Miss Thomas.
Mary Lamb. By Mrs. Gilchrist
Margaret Fuller. By Julia Ward Howe.
Maria Edgeworth. By Miss Zimmern.
MARIA EDGEWORTH.
BY HELEN ZIMMERN.
BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1884.
Copyright, 1883, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
PREFACE.
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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 As I have had the good fortune to have access to an unpublished memoir of her, written by her stepmother, as well as to a large number of her private letters, I am enabled to place what I hope is at least an authentic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. George Ticknor and Miss Ticknor of Boston, 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.
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CHAPTER I.
Page
Introductory9
CHAPTER II.
Early Years17
CHAPTER III.
Girlhood28
CHAPTER IV.
Womanhood42
CHAPTER V.
"Practical Education"—Children's Books52
CHAPTER VI.
Irish and Moral Tales73
CHAPTER VII.
In France and at Home88
CHAPTER VIII.
Fashionable and Popular Tales116
CHAPTER IX.
Visit to London—Mr. Edgeworth's Death144
CHAPTER X.
later Novels—General Estimate161
CHAPTER XI.
Visits Abroad and at Home193
CHAPTER XII.
Mr. Edgeworth's Memoirs Published—1821 To 1825 214
CHAPTER XIII.
1826 TO 1834237
CHAPTER XIV.
Last Years269
MARIA EDGEWORTH.
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