Maria Edgeworth
Bio: Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), having grown up at her father’s estate in Ireland, saturated her novels with colorful depictions of the Irish and moral lessons on the treatment of peasants. Her strict father stipulated that she show him The Parent’s Assistant before she was allowed to read it to her siblings. She did, however, manage to sneak Castle Rackrent off for anonymous publication without her father’s approval. Throughout her life she worked hard to relieve the Irish peasants starving from the famine.
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