Maria Edgeworth
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wrote, during the late eighteenth century and especially the early nineteenth century, long and short fiction for adults and children, as well as works about the theory and practice of pedagogy. Her reputation as an Irish writer, and as the inventor of the regional novel, has never waned; it was long before she became outmoded as a children's writer; her interest as a feminist writer is finally being explored.
- BirthName: Maria Edgeworth She was apparently christened Mary, and signed herself thus in her earliest surviving letter.
- Pseudonyms: M. E.; M. R. I. A.