Maria Edgeworth
London: Arthur Barker, 1950
[Edgeworth] took her readers not only to the country house but also into the doctor’s consulting room, to the officer’s mess, to the young lawyer’s rooms in one of the Inns of Court and, most importantly, she took them into the cabin of the Irish peasant, found material that she made peculiarly her own, and, in so doing, gave dignity to the regional subject and made the regional novel possible.
This concise literary biography, part of the English Novelists Series, analyses Edgeworth’s work in the context of her life.
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