Edgeworth (Maria) Part of a leaf of the Autograph
Edgeworth (Maria, novelist and educationist, 1768-1849) Part of a leaf of the Autograph manuscript of her novel Helen, autograph manuscript with corrections, cut at tail with loss, slightly browned, 211 x 202mm., n.d. [1834].
⁂ Maria Edgeworth's most popular novel. Edgeworth's "last full-length novel, Helen, was set among English middle-class folk. In a significant departure from her other novels, the story was focused not on a didactic theme, but on a dramatic situation and the relationships between three main characters. 'I have been reproached for making my moral in some stories too prominent', she wrote to her publisher J. G. Lockhart, 'I am sensible of the inconvenience of this both to reader and writer & have taken much pains to avoid it in Helen' (Edgeworth to J. G. Lockhart, 12 May 1833)." - Oxford DNB.
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Edgeworth (Maria, novelist and educationist, 1768-1849) Part of a leaf of the Autograph manuscript of her novel Helen, autograph manuscript with corrections, cut at tail with loss, slightly browned, 211 x 202mm., n.d. [1834].
⁂ Maria Edgeworth's most popular novel. Edgeworth's "last full-length novel, Helen, was set among English middle-class folk. In a significant departure from her other novels, the story was focused not on a didactic theme, but on a dramatic situation and the relationships between three main characters. 'I have been reproached for making my moral in some stories too prominent', she wrote to her publisher J. G. Lockhart, 'I am sensible of the inconvenience of this both to reader and writer & have taken much pains to avoid it in Helen' (Edgeworth to J. G. Lockhart, 12 May 1833)." - Oxford DNB.
