# The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1

Author: Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849; Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8825

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Life+and+Letters+of+Maria+Edgeworth%2C+Volume+1+Edgeworth&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In her later years Miss Edgeworth was often asked to write a biographical preface to her novels. She refused. "As a woman," she said, "my life, wholly domestic, can offer nothing of interest to the public." Incidents indeed, in that quiet happy home existence, there were none to narrate, nothing but the ordinary joys and sorrows which attend every human life. Yet the letters of one so clear-sighted and sagacious--one whom Macaulay considered to be the second woman of her age--are valuable, not only as a record of her times, and of many who were prominent figures in them: but from the picture they naturally give of a simple, honest, generous, high-minded character, filled from youth to age...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-volume-1-8825/chapters/24/index.md)