Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific
Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was 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 critical 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. Her name today most commonly associated with ''
Castle Rackrent'', her first novel in which she adopted an
Irish Catholic voice to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed
Anglo-Irish class.
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