Helen, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Maria Edgeworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331526701 ISBN 13: 9781331526704

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from Helen, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale

Tion of Harrington and Ormond, the t two volumes of this series, and the issue of Helen during this period Miss Edgeworth wrote no novels, and did no very large amount of writing. Having finished Harrington and Ormond in 1817, just at the date of her father's death, the editing and completing of his Memoir: was her next literary work, this being published in two volumes in 1 820. After this date, she only issued a revised edition of Rommond, and a sequel to her early story, Harry and Lucy, until in 1834 Helen was published, this being her last novel; the only thing she wrote after was a short story, orlarijna, written to obtain funds for the famine-stricken peasants of Ireland 111 1847. The principal editions of Helen are the following.

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Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1331526701
• ISBN 13: 9781331526704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304