Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist of adult and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel
Portrait by John Downman, 1807
Edgeworthstown House, Ireland
Maria Edgeworth, c. 1841
Miniature of Edgeworth by Adam Buck, c. 1790
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor. He had 22 children.
Maria Edgeworth
…and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class. Maria Edgeworth was born in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. She was the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (who eventually fathered twenty-two surviving children by four wives) and Anna Maria Edgeworth (née Elers); Maria was thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro…
Library at Edgeworthstown House 1888