Helen
By Maria Edgeworth · Running time 21:09:12 · General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer 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 advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education. Here is what one biographer of Maria Edgeworth has to say about Helen. "It was in 1830–when already past sixty years of age–that Miss Edgeworth set to work upon the last, and what, at the time it was written, was possibly the most successful of all her novels–namely, Helen. Any r
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