Description: MARIA EDGEWORTH Tales and Novels (10 Volumes) 2007 Library Bindings NEW. SEALED. Originally published in 10 Volumes by London: Bohn, 1874. Reprint by Classic Books. This Rare Hardcover 10 volume set published bound in black leatherette (Library Binding) boards and bears attractive gilt lettering on spine. Maria Edgeworth, (1767 – 1849) Anglo-Irish writer, known for her children’s stories and for her novels of Irish life. She lived in England until 1782, when the family went to Edgeworth town, County Longford, in midwestern Ireland, where Maria, then 15 and the eldest daughter, assisted her father in managing his estate. In this way she acquired the knowledge of rural economy and of the Irish peasantry that was to be the backbone of her novels. Domestic life at Edgeworth town was busy and happy. Encouraged by her father, Maria began her writing in the common sitting room, where the 21 other children in the family provided material and audience for her stories. She published them in 1796 as The Parent’s Assistant. Even the intrusive moralizing, attributed to her father’s editing, does not wholly suppress their vitality, and the children who appear in them, especially the impetuous Rosamond, are the first real children in English literature since Shakespeare. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800), written without her father’s interference, reveals her gift for social observation, character sketch, and authentic dialogue and is free from lengthy lecturing. It established the genre of the “regional novel,” and its influence was enormous; Sir Walter Scott acknowledged his debt to Edgeworth in writing Waverley. Her next work, Belinda (1801), a society novel unfortunately marred by her father’s insistence on a happy ending, was particularly admired by Jane Austen. Between 1809 and 1812 she published her Tales of Fashionable Life in six volumes. They include one of her best novels, The Absentee, which focused attention on a great contemporary abuse in Irish society: absentee English landowning. (Britannica) *Service 24/7. Your purchase will be appropriately packaged and shipped to ensure a smooth arrival followed up with an email with a tracking #.
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Place of Publication: USA
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Publisher: CLASSIC BOOKS
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 2007
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Author: MARIA EDGEWORTH
Region: Europe
Personalized: No
Topic: Novels
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 10
