Maria Edgeworth — Popular Tales in Three Volumes

London, R. Hunter; Baldwin and Cradock et al, 1828. Leather. A smart set of Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth. Author of Belinda, Castle Rackrent, &c. Complete in three volumes. A new edition. Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific 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. Though Maria Edgeworth spent most of her childhood in England, her life in Ireland had a profound impact on both her thinking and views surrounding her Irish culture. Fauske and Kaufman conclude, "[She] used her fiction to address the inherent problems of acts delineated by religious, national, racial, class based, sexual, and gendered identities." In green half calf leather bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed. There is some loss to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with some scattered light foxing. There is a bookplate the front pastedown in all volumes Good . Ill.: None. Good .