Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworthwas a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth1 January 1767
CountryIreland
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Come when you're called And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you And you'll never be chid
It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.