Maria Edgeworth  

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Maria Edgeworth (1768 – 1849) was an Anglo-Irish writer.

She corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.

List of published works

A partial list of published works:

• Letters for Literary Ladies – 1795
  • includes: An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification – 1795
• The Parent's Assistant – 1796
• Practical Education – 1798 (2 vols; collaborated with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth and step-mother, Honora Sneyd)
• Castle Rackrent – 1800 (novel)
• Moral Tales – 1801
• Belinda – 1801 (novel)
• The Mental Thermometer – 1801
• Essay on Irish Bulls – 1802 (political, collaborated with her father)
• Popular Tales – 1804
• The Modern Griselda – 1804
• Moral Tales for Young People – 1805 (6 vols)
• Leonora – 1806 (written during the French excursion)
• Essays in Professional Education – 1809
• Tales of Fashionable Life – 1809 and 1812 (2 collections of stories, the second of which includes The Absentee)
• Ennui – 1809 (novel)
• The Absentee – 1812 (novel)
• Patronage – 1814 (novel)
• Harrington – 1817 (novel)
• Ormond – 1817 (novel)
• Comic Dramas – 1817
• Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth – 1820 (edited her father's memoirs)
• Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons – 1821
• Frank: A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons – 1822
• Tomorrow – 1823 (novel)
• Helen – 1834 (novel)
• Orlandino – 1848 (temperance novel)