Though this is a marked departure from JM
's science-conversation format, it shares her instructional impulse, containing accounts of, for instance, the production of salt in Abyssinia. It could plausibly be ascribed to her. The...
Birth
Maria Edgeworth
ME
was born at Black Bourton in Oxfordshire, home of her mother's family.
ME
's biographer Marilyn Butler
, in a footnote, discusses the different dates ascribed to her birth—1 January 1767 or 1768...