Maria Edgeworth in Paris
Journal: Women's Writing
The Irish novelist and educationalist Maria Edgeworth spent an intense five months in Paris in the Peace of Amiens period between October 1802 and March 1803 (she would revisit the city during another fraught period in French politics in 1820). On arriving in France, Edgeworth found that she was already a celebrated author: Practical Education (1798) and Belinda (1801) had both been translated into French and were w…