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Edgeworth

[ej-wurth]

noun

  1. Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.



Edgeworth

/ ˈɛdʒwɜːθ /

noun

  1. Maria. 1767–1849, Anglo-Irish novelist: her works include Castle Rackrent (1800) and The Absentee (1812)

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Edgeworth, caving in to the criticism, edited out the Black character in subsequent editions.

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Edgeworth went on to become one of the most highly paid fiction writers of her generation and inspired copycats, especially of her Irish stories and moral tales.

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David Henry Edgeworth Butler was born on 17 October 1924.

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In 1969, she married Ron Edgeworth, a British pianist and musical director.

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Verena Edgeworth from Bristol, who is in Ceredigion on holiday, needed help in order to pay for her parking.

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