Frases de Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth foi uma prolífica escritora anglo-irlandesa de literatura infantil e para adultos. Ela foi uma dos primeiros escritores realistas em literatura infantil e foi uma figura importante na evolução do romance na Europa. Edgeworth teve visões avançadas, para uma mulher no seu tempo, na gestão de imóveis, política e educação, e se correspondeu com alguns dos principais escritores literários e econômicos, incluindo Sir Walter Scott e David Ricardo. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Janeiro 1768 – 22. Maio 1849
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Maria Edgeworth: Frases em inglês

“Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.”

Essay on Irish Bulls (1802), ch. 4; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 123.
Written in collaboration with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth.

“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”

Maria Edgeworth livro Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent, "Continuation of the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 46.

“Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.”

Letters for Literary Ladies (1795), "Julia and Caroline", Letter 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 13, p. 225.

“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”

"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 213.

“Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.”

"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" (1795); Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 206.

“I have made up my mind to like no novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, yours and my own.”

Jane Austen, letter to her niece, Anna Lefroy, 1814; cited from Valerie Grosvenor Myer Jane Austen, Obstinate Heart (New York: Arcade, 1997) p. 196.
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