Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Helen: 'It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine''

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Romaner

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.

© 2019 Horse's Mouth (E-bog): 9781787806788

Release date

E-bog: 19. juli 2019

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Across the River and Into the Trees Ernest Hemingway
  2. Ormond: 'Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business'' Maria Edgeworth
  3. Night and Day Virginia Woolf
  4. The Body Artist Don DeLillo
  5. A Life's Morning George Gissing
  6. The Castle Franz Kafka
  7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë
  8. The Letters of Jane Austen Jane Austen
  9. Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell
  10. Agnes Grey Anne Brontë
  11. Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
  12. Orlando - A Biography Virginia Woolf
  13. The Tempest William Shakespeare
  14. The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
  15. Mansfield Park Jane Austen
  16. The Castle Franz Kafka
  17. Cosmopolis: A Novel Don DeLillo
  18. She’s No Princess Laura Lee Guhrke
  19. Fatelessness: A Novel Imre Kertész
  20. The Fishermen Chigozie Obioma
  21. Desperate Duchesses Eloisa James
  22. The Trees: A Novel Percival Everett
  23. How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days: An American Heiress in London Laura Lee Guhrke
  24. On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Stephen King
  25. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake Sarah MacLean
  26. The Complete Stories Clarice Lispector
  27. Det godes kamp Danielle Steel
  28. Wilde in Love: The Wildes of Lindow Castle Eloisa James
  29. While the Duke Was Sleeping: The Rogue Files Sophie Jordan
  30. The Ugly Duchess Eloisa James
  31. Mysterious Abduction Rita Herron
  32. Outmatched Samantha Young
  33. Boneland Alan Garner
  34. Splendid Julia Quinn
  35. The Christmas Wedding Dilly Court
  36. A Week to Be Wicked Tessa Dare
  37. Trouble Samantha Towle
  38. Any Duchess Will Do Tessa Dare
  39. An Unexpected Bride Ashtyn Newbold
  40. Marry in Haste Christina Courtenay
  41. Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler
  42. The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World Deborah Cadbury
  43. Zero K Don DeLillo
  44. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things Paula Byrne
  45. The Odyssey Homer

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis