Frases de Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth fue una escritora anglo-irlandesa.

✵ 1. enero 1768 – 22. mayo 1849
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“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 libro 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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