Maria Edgeworth and romance

Sharon Murphy

‘Maria Edgeworth and romance by Sharon Murphy is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Edgeworth, which explores the imaginative force of her work, an aspect hitherto largely neglected … Murphy contributes to a fuller and more complex understanding of Edgeworth’s achievement as an author’, Ciara Ní Bhroin, Irish Literary Supplement.

‘Perhaps the most comprehensive reading of Edgeworth since Marilyn Butler’s 1972 biography … ’, Jarlath Killeen, Irish University Review.

'Sharon Murphy’s argument in Maria Edgeworth and romance is telling and attractive’, Nicola Trott, Times Literary Supplement.