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.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 188
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
490, 492
Textual Production
Maria Edgeworth
ME
's father
began an Arabian fable and asked the eleven-year-old Maria to finish it for him.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
57, 146
Travel
Maria Edgeworth
ME
stayed at Clifton near Bristol with her father
, stepmother, and her six younger siblings (all but the toddler).
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
104, 114
Travel
Maria Edgeworth
ME
set out, with herfather
, stepmother
, and two eldest unmarried sisters, to visit France and Belgium.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
