Books by Maria Edgeworth

For the first time, these two important Irish national novels are paired in one volume, suitable for courses in Anglo-Irish literature and history, Romantic studies, and women's studies. Contextual materials include commentaries by contemporaries and personal letters from both authors.

This important novel, written in 1812, was a work of social criticism that raised people's consciousness about the evils of absentee landlords, specifically the English in Ireland. The story involves the efforts of young Lord Colambre to right the wrongs done by his aristocratic parents, who are oblivious to the wretchedly impoverished condition of the tenants on their Irish estates.

The classic 1806 novel by one of the renowned English "lady writers."

Edgeworth's novel, first published in 1800, exposes the fearful inequities between the English landed gentry and the tenants on their Irish estates.

Edgeworth's novel, first published in 1800, exposes the fearful inequities between the English landed gentry and the tenants on their Irish estates.

Three "moral tales" by a novelist whose work significantly affected English literature in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.