Maria Edgeworth

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1767 - 22 May 1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and children's writer. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Anna Maria Edgeworth née Elers and thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. On her father's second marriage in 1773, she went with him to Ireland, where she eventually was to settle on his estate, Edgeworthstown, in County Longford. There, she mixed with the Anglo-Irish gentry, particularly Kitty Pakenham (later the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington), Lady Moira, and her aunt Margaret Ruston of Black Castle.