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Synopsis
This twelve-volume edition of the major works of Maria Edgeworth makes available one of the most important but most neglected of women writers in English. Born in England in 1768 of an English mother and an Anglo-Irish father, Edgeworth lived from the age of 14 on her father's estate in the Irish Midlands. She was introduced by her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, educationalist and Enlightenment polymath, to a remarkable range of books and current ideas. Her sparkling comedies of high-life English manners influenced Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. Her four remarkable Irish tales, beginning with Castle Rackrent (1800), initiate the national or regional novel, which feeds the nineteenth-century historical novel and the modern post-colonial novel. The fiction she wrote herself for and about children, which stayed in print for more than a century, remains among the very best of its kind. The educational treatises, handbooks and teaching materials she wrote in collaboration with R L Edgeworth are part of her period's breakthrough in understanding of the world of childhood. This first collected edition since the nineteenth century makes available to scholars, students and general readers all the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a generous selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth. This edition restores to prominence Jane Austen's leading contemporary rival - a comic, original and often brilliant analyst of her world whose work John Ruskin declared, constituted 'the most re-readable books in existence'.
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Review
'a heroic undertaking...Maria has found her voice again'- Hugh Parry, Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society Journal
About the Author
Editorial board Marilyn Butler is Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. Among her critical books are Maria Edgworth - A Literary Biography (1972); and Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975). Her previous editions for Pickering and Chatto are Frankenstein (1993) and, with Janet Todd, The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1989)
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- PublisherPickering & Chatto Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1851961828
- ISBN 13 9781851961825
- BindingHardcover
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