Maria Edgeworth (1767 1849) was an Irish novelist. Maria managed her fathers large estate and later drew on this knowledge in her novels. Marias stories had a moral purpose. The stories often pointed out the responsibility of the upper class toward their tenants. During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice in Castle Rackrent. She adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own AngloIrish class. With this satire on AngloIrish landlords Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scotts Waverley (1814). She also changed the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class and boldly predicted the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie.

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