A Study Of Maria Edgeworth PDF Download

Excerpt from A Study Maria Edgeworth: With Notices of Her Father and Friends Happy hours of childhood passed in reading the "Parent's Assistant," "Frank," and "Early Lessons," were followed by years in which I enjoyed the Moral and Fashionable Tales. "Ennui," too, had its invaluable lesson, - that the pursuit of pleasure as an occupation can only result in misery and mental and moral destruction. As one of the thousands who have laughed at the wit and cried over the pathos of Maria Edgeworth's works, I desired to know something of the personal history of this gifted woman. Inquiries soon revealed the fact that, there was no adequate sketch of Miss Edgeworth. Mrs. S. C. Hall had drawn a picture of her during a few days' visit at her home. Miss Julia Kavanagh had written a brief sketch for her biographies of English Women of Letters. Mr. Hayward, in preparing a review of the Memoir published by the Edgeworths, gave the longest biographical and critical sketch of her as yet attempted; but it was only a review article, not sufficient in itself to appear alone. The biographical sketches of her in magazines, etc., amounted to very little, being at best brief and meagre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.