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MARIA EDGEWORTH
MARIA EDGEWORTH
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Emily Lawless' "Maria Edgeworth" will certainly takes its place among the best of the biographies.
The writer's heart is evidently in her work, and her interest and delight in it communicate themselves, by a happy law of Nature, to the reader. One is carried along with increasing enjoyment through these two hundred agreeable pages, in which Emily Lawless improves her own acquaintance and ours with "one of the very pleasantest personalities to be met with in the whole wide world of books."
The book is written and the portrait sketched with so light a touch that only the initiated are likely to know what an amount of accurate study and careful work is represented by the finished performance. Emily Lawless has occupied herself specially with the Irish side of Maria Edgeworth's life and writings, and arouses new interest in the latter, especially "Castle Rackrent." She was able to print for the first time a good many of Maria Edgeworth's letters, and this fact adds much to the value of the book, for it gives us quite a fresh and charming impression of "the great Maria," whose character, as well as her talents, made her a worthy friend of Sir Walter Scott.
The writer's heart is evidently in her work, and her interest and delight in it communicate themselves, by a happy law of Nature, to the reader. One is carried along with increasing enjoyment through these two hundred agreeable pages, in which Emily Lawless improves her own acquaintance and ours with "one of the very pleasantest personalities to be met with in the whole wide world of books."
The book is written and the portrait sketched with so light a touch that only the initiated are likely to know what an amount of accurate study and careful work is represented by the finished performance. Emily Lawless has occupied herself specially with the Irish side of Maria Edgeworth's life and writings, and arouses new interest in the latter, especially "Castle Rackrent." She was able to print for the first time a good many of Maria Edgeworth's letters, and this fact adds much to the value of the book, for it gives us quite a fresh and charming impression of "the great Maria," whose character, as well as her talents, made her a worthy friend of Sir Walter Scott.
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