Category: Biographies
Too many memoirs begin with tradition; to trace a subject _ab ovo_ seems to have a fatal attraction for the human mind. It is not needful to retrace so far in speaking of Miss Edgeworth; but, for a right understanding of her life and social position, it is necessary to say som...
More and more Miss Edgeworth's life revolved round home and friends. "In this world, in which I have lived nearly three-quarters of a century, I have found nothing one-quarter s...
13. CHAPTER XIII.It was in 1825 that the second part of _Harry and Lucy_ was published, completing the labors planned for Miss Edgeworth by her father. The good reception it met with caused her...
7. CHAPTER VII.The peace, or rather the truce, of Amiens had induced many travellers to visit France. They all returned enraptured with what they had seen of society in Paris, and with the mas...
10. CHAPTER X.Few of Miss Edgeworth's stories were written quickly. In her case, however, the Horatian maxim was scarcely justified, for her best tales are almost without exception those writ...
8. CHAPTER VIII.When the literary history of the nineteenth century is written, its historians will be amazed to find how important a part the contributions of women have played therein. At the...
12. CHAPTER XII.The _Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth_ had been published during Miss Edgeworth's stay on the Continent. After all the anxiety she had felt while preparing the work for the p...
11. CHAPTER XI.Life at Edgeworthstown underwent no outward change owing to the death of its master. His place was taken by his eldest and unmarried son, Lovell, who sought to the best of his a...
5. CHAPTER V.Two circumstances must never be lost sight of in speaking of Miss Edgeworth's writings: the one, that she did not write from the inner prompting of genius, but rather because it...
9. CHAPTER IX.Busily, happily, uneventfully time flowed on at Edgeworthstown, while abroad Miss Edgeworth's fame was steadily on the increase. But whatever the world might say, however kind,...
6. CHAPTER VI.In 1800 was published anonymously a small book called _Castle Rackrent_. It professed to be a Hibernian tale, taken from facts and from the manners of the Irish squires before t...
3. CHAPTER III.Ireland is not among those countries that arouse in the hearts of strangers a desire to pitch their tents, and to judge from the readiness with which her own children leave her,...
2. CHAPTER II.MARIA EDGEWORTH was born January 1st, 1767, in the house of her grandfather, Mr. Elers. Thus this distinguished authoress was an Englishwoman by birth, though Irish and German b...
4. CHAPTER IV.On their return the Edgeworths at first inclined to think that the English papers had exaggerated the Irish disturbances. Accustomed to a condition of permanent discontent, they...
1. CHAPTER I.Too many memoirs begin with tradition; to trace a subject _ab ovo_ seems to have a fatal attraction for the human mind. It is not needful to retrace so far in speaking of Miss E...