Maria Edgeworth
(1768–1849)

Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature; one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe

Works

  • Letters for Literary Ladies - 1795 IA
  • The Parent's Assistant - 1796 IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5
  • Practical Education - 1798 (2 vols; collaborated with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth) IA 1, IA 2
  • Castle Rackrent (1800) (novel) IA
  • Early Lessons - 1801 IA
  • Belinda - (1801) (novel) IA
  • Essay on Irish Bulls - 1802 (political, collaborated with her father) IA
  • Popular Tales - 1804 IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • The Modern Griselda - 1804 IA
  • Moral Tales for Young People - 1805 (6 vols)
  • Leonora - 1806 (written during the French excursion) IA
  • The match girl (1808) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • Tales of Fashionable Life - 1809 (first in a series, includes The Absentee) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5, IA 6
  • Ennui - 1809 (novel)
  • Tales of real life (1810) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • The Absentee - 1812 (novel)
  • Patronage - 1814 (novel) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4
  • Harrington, and Ormond (1817) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • Comic Dramas - 1817 IA
  • Memoirs - 1820 (edited her father's memoirs)
  • Early Lessons - 1822 (sequels to some of the tales)
  • Æsop's fables (1824) external link IA
  • Harry and Lucy (1825) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • Helen - 1834 (novel) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
  • Frank (1842) IA
  • Stories of Ireland: Castle Rackrent: The absentee (1886) IA

Works about Edgeworth

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 
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