Edgeworth
Americannoun
noun
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Edgeworth pointed out inconsistencies in Coughlan's story, including claims he had injured his hands climbing a tree after the incident, which she called "slightly odd".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Edgeworth leaves no doubt which is the hero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Edgeworth’s interest in economics began with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, a charismatic inventor and landowner who married four times and fathered 22 surviving children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Edgeworth’s intellectual honesty is one of many reasons to welcome Ms. Smialek’s biography, “The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth: How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A young man named Edgeworth became interested in the scheme, and, in 1768, published a paper which had secured for him a gold medal from the Society of Arts.
From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert H. Thurston
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