7 best short stories by Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults’ and children’s literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children’s literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that show the best of this author’s work:

– The Grateful Negro
– The Prussian Vase
– The Good Aunt
– The Good French Governess
– The Orphans
– The False Key
– Tarlton