Richard Lovell Edgeworth

ME , having left school, set out with her father to live at Edgeworthstown in County Longford, where the Edgeworth family had been established since 1583.

The Double Disguise, set in an inn in England (the Pig and Castle, on the road from Ireland via Liverpool to London), features a travelling Irish family. The father (Richard Lovell Edgeworth 's...

ME stayed at Clifton near Bristol with her father , stepmother, and her six younger siblings (all but the toddler).

It opens with a breezy, antifeminist, adversarial Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend. The gentleman is hostile to female education and female authorship; his letter is based on one actually sent by Day

Richard Lovell Edgeworth , with ME and the rest of the family, were forced to leave their house to escape the Catholic rebels.

She received two hundred pounds for it, twice as much as for the recent Castle Rackrent. She applied the genre-name moral tale, that same year, to an adult novel as well. Richard Lovell Edgeworth

ME set out, with herfather , stepmother , and two eldest unmarried sisters, to visit France and Belgium.

She wrote Ormond (120,000 words) in three months; her father wrote an address to the reader for it a few days before he died. The three volumes containing the two titles were...

ME was distracted from her writing by concern for her father 's health: he was suffering painful bouts of intestinal and kidney disease.

Richard Lovell Edgeworth wrote a preface, dating it February. He was seriously annoyed when Johnson commissioned Thomas Holcroft to write mottoes for these tales. Johnson, however, paid three hundred pounds for it.

ME suffered a blow she had long dreaded: the death of her father .

John Ward, later Earl of Dudley , who had at first admired ME 's tales, later compared her to her disadvantage with Jane Austen (whose name, however, he did not know) and suspected Richard Lovell Edgeworth

ME 's father began an Arabian fable and asked the eleven-year-old Maria to finish it for him.

Until the age of eleven, Elizabeth was taught at home by her Aunt Hannah Lumb . As befitting the Unitarian emphasis on personal freedom and rationality, she read widely, and was encouraged to make her...

BH said she had the specific approbation of Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth for another book set in the lower ranks of society, The Blind Farmer and his Children.