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Chawton House Library: Biography of Maria Edgeworth

Writing about web page http://www.chawton.org/library/biographies/edgeworth.html

Click on the link above for Susan Manly's brief biography of Maria Edgeworth, in which she discusses the relationship Edgeworth had with her father and the influence he had on her writing, as well as Edgeworth's description of Belinda as a 'Moral Tale'.

Chawton House Library houses a unique collection of books focusing on women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830 and is set in the home and working estate of Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight.

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