This 12-volume edition of the major works of Maria Edgeworth makes available one of the most important but most neglected of women writers in English. It contains all the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a generous selection of educational and occasional writings of Edgeworth, whose sparkling comedies of high-life English manners influenced Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.influenced Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.

Presents scholars, students and general readers with the major fiction for adults, much of the best of juvenile fiction, and a selection of the educational and occasional writings of Maria Edgeworth.