ME
visited her old schoolfriend Fanny Hoare
and her husband Charles
in Roehampton near London.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
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Friends, Associates
Maria Edgeworth
During her early years at Edgeworthstown, ME
's chief friends and correspondents were Fanny Robinson (later Hoare)
, whom she had met at Mrs Devis's school, and her aunt Mrs Ruxton
(her father's sister) and...
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Maria Edgeworth
ME
's early letters to her friend Fanny Robinson
are earnest and priggish. By the 1790s she was sending the Ruxtons letters which have literary merit in themselves (mixing amusing anecdote and expressions of affection)...