Belinda: 'Confidence is the best proof of love''
()
About this ebook
Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire on January 1st 1768. Her early years were with her mother's family in England. Sadly, her mother died when Maria was five.
Maria was educated at Mrs Lattafière's school in Derby in 1775. There she studied dancing, French and other subjects. Maria transferred to Mrs Devis's school in Upper Wimpole Street, London. Her father began to focus more attention on Maria in 1781 when she nearly lost her sight to an eye infection.
She returned home to Ireland at 14 and took charge of her younger siblings. She herself was home-tutored by her father in Irish economics and politics, science, literature and law. Despite her youth literature was in her blood. Maria also became her father's assistant in managing the family’s large Edgeworthstown estate.
Maria first published 1795 with ‘Letters for Literary Ladies’. That same year ‘An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification’, written for a female audience, advised women on how to obtain better rights in general and specifically from their husbands.
‘Practical Education’ (1798) is a progressive work on education. Maria’s ambition was to create an independent thinker who understands the consequences of his or her actions.
Her first novel, ‘Castle Rackrent’ was published anonymously in 1800 without her father's knowledge. It was an immediate success and firmly established Maria’s appeal to the public.
Her father married four times and the last of these to Frances, a year younger and a confidante of Maria, who pushed them to travel more widely: London, Britain and Europe were all now visited.
The second series of ‘Tales of Fashionable Life’ (1812) did so well that she was now the most commercially successful novelist of her age.
She particularly worked hard to improve the living standards of the poor in Edgeworthstown and to provide schools for the local children of all and any denomination.
After a visit to see her relations Maria had severe chest pains and died suddenly of a heart attack in Edgeworthstown on 22nd May 1849. She was 81.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Read more from Maria Edgeworth
The Absentee Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Absentee Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Leonora Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Maria Edgeworth Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHelen (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Helen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Greatest Regency Romances of All Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Absentee (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Vivian: 'Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAngelina Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMurad the Unlucky and Other Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 09 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPatronage: Regency Romance Classic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Absentee Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeonora: Regency Romance Classic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCastle Rackrent Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrmond Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBelinda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 9 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 6 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 10 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 8 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Belinda
Related ebooks
Essential Novelists - Maria Edgeworth: romances of real life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBelinda Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Belinda: Regency Romance Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBelinda: Regency Romance Classic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBelinda: Historical Romance Classic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 03 Belinda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales and Novels — Volume 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHard Cash (Historical Thriller) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHelen: 'It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales of Fashionable Life: 'No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Victorian Ghost Story - Volume 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHard Cash Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthanger Abbey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays, Vol. I (of 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthanger Abbey (English edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGodolphin, Volume 3. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVivian: 'Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Duke's Children Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays (Vol. 1&2): Complete Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthanger Abbey (Illustrated by Hugh Thomson) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rage of Caliban: The Magpie Prince Cycle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthanger Abbey: Bestsellers and famous Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Living Link: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthanger Abbey: Illustrated Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarrington: 'How success changes the opinion of men!'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVague People & Other Social Essays: Complete Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthanger Abbey (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ways of Life: Two Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Classics For You
Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Learn French! Apprends l'Anglais! THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: In French and English Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things They Carried Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5East of Eden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Count of Monte-Cristo English and French Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Confederacy of Dunces Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Scarlet Letter Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Belinda
0 ratings0 reviews