Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which Is Added, an Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Maria Edgeworth

9780332125930: Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which Is Added, an Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332125939 ISBN 13: 9780332125930

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As I know it to be your opinion, that it is in the power of education, more certainly than it was ever believed to be.

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Letters for Literary Ladies (1795) is the first publication of Maria Edgeworth, one of bestselling authors of the early nineteenth century and an eloquent advocate of female education. These fictional letters illustrate the benefits of an education founded on reason and the consequences of an education founded on pleasing others.

About the Author

Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.

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