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The book was bitterly attacked, probably by Croker, in the Freeman's Journal, but the best bit of criticism upon it is contained in a letter from Mr. Edgeworth to Miss Owenson. 'Maria, he says, 'who reads as well as she writes, has entertained us with several passages from The Wild Irish Girl, which I thought superior to any parts of the book I had read.
It is small wonder that chivalrous devotion should decrease when women lay so little claim to it. Miss Edgeworth needed to decry sentimental and high-flown feelings, the Miss Edgeworth of to-day would need to uphold romance.
I had so often heard that she was plain that to see this fashionable and agreeable figure was a pleasant surprise. Miss Edgeworth seems to be about four-and-twenty in the sketch; she was born in 1767; she must have been eleven in 1778, when Mr. Edgeworth finally came over to Ireland to settle on his own estate, and among his own people.
Edgeworth objected strongly to a practice common among the gentry, 'to protect their tenants when they got into any difficulties by disobeying the laws. Smuggling and illicit distilling seemed to be privileged cases, where, the justice and expediency of the spirit of the law being doubtful, escaping from the letter of it appeared but a trial of ingenuity or luck.
This was the first work of that literary partnership of father and daughter which Maria Edgeworth describes as "the joy and pride of my life." MARIA to MISS SOPHY RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Nov. 19, '98. You have, I suppose, or are conscious that you ought to have, whitlows upon your thumb and all your four fingers for not writing to me!
The mere plea, 'I have been on your Honour's estate so many years, was disregarded. 'Nor was it advantageous that each son, says Miss Edgeworth, 'of the original tenant should live on his subdivided little potato garden without further exertion of mind or body. Further on she continues: 'Not being in want of ready money, my father was not obliged to let his land to the highest bidder.
But who then are Sévigné and Somerville, Edgeworth and De Staël, Barbauld and Benger, and Aikin, and Jameson, Hemans, Landon, and a thousand more, not less learned, less accomplished, nor less useful?
Lord Carrington of course lost his L36 and saved his honour. Mr. Ricardo said he might have done better by writing to apprise the owners of the vessel that he was ready to pay a fair price for it, and the duties. To MISS LUCY EDGEWORTH. GATCOMBE PARK, Nov. 12. We are perfectly happy here; delightful house and place for walking, riding, driving. Fanny has a horse always at her command.
To C. SNEYD EDGEWORTH, IN LONDON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Jan. 1, 1808. A Happy New Year to you, my dear Sneyd. My mother has told you about these predictions, and the horror they have spread through the country entirely. The old woman who was the cause of the mischief is, I suppose, no bigger than a midge's wing, as she has never been found, though diligent search has been made for her.
Edgeworth, is really replying to the northern critic who had brought that writer’s work into notice, and to a far greater author than either of them, who in a past age had argued on the same side. The author to whom I allude is no other than Locke.
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