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A 15 MARIEDGEWORTH.
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habit or From such of scribbling other childhood materiel her Mari juvenile as a had fell , compositions like in her many little on and the inci in backs pient the of meridian letters , a , way ;
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sugge It promised sted her well att , emp but ting was an never English _piiblished version , of being Adele superseded and by . a ' translation Mr also who from had been the pen deep of l a prejudiced lady . against female
authorshib . Day some instances of indiscretion y which he had seen in ladies of literary p y talent , always maintained that
_" And Of those half who of those claim who it , have more it than , are half undone have . " none ,
wrote On Miss a congratulatory Edgeworth reKnquishing letter to her father her Adelaide , which drew and Theodore from of that him , ' he an
recollection respondence energetic defence remained was of afterwards female in Maria literature produced ' s retentive . The her memory substance ' Letters , and for from Literary cor her - Science of
Ladies long Self-justification after ? to which the death ? was This of added volume Mr . the Day , which witty , came c was Essay out not anonymousl on published the noble y , till and 1795 met ,
with A sli the ht most intimation favorable of reception her writing . for the world was given by her
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managed from chapt a dwarf on your "A . " ttention igantic , weapons " and has with , I think as much , —pardon adroitness my paternal as could par be tialit _exj _> ected y , —
many Mr . years Edgeworth kept , notes Mrs . of Honora observations , and Mrs relative . Elizabeth to the training E ., had and for which followed
Education and charact arranged ers ? of This his by his children book daug , hter which , and , formed these was the notes the joint ground , production work were of of ' Practical herself up
name and her of father Maria , was Edgewoeth published first in the appeared course of before 1797 the , when literary the
world . In the October of this year Mrs . Edgeworth , who had for a long died
time of her suffered , she her possessed from husband that try always peculiarl ing disease said large , , consumption that proportion amongst , other of . that In admirable speaking essential
one standing qualites , good which sense ; happ employs il a y defined itself in b y y forming him as ' j that ust habit estimates of the of under every -
A 15 Mariedgeworth.
A 15 MARIEDGEWORTH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/15/
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