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Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer, one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland.

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