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Title: Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Release Date: April 22, 2005 [eBook #2129]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1891 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email
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MURAD THE UNLUCKY AND OTHER TALES
Contents:
Introduction
Murad the Unlucky
The Limerick Gloves
Madame de Fleury
INTRODUCTION
Maria Edgeworth came of a lively family which had settled in Ireland in
the latter part of the sixteenth century. Her father at the age of five-
and-twenty inherited the family estates at Edgeworthstown in 1769. He
had snatched an early marriage, which did not prove happy. He had a
little son, whom he was educating upon the principles set forth in
Rousseau's "Emile," and a daughter Maria, who was born on the 1st of
January, 1767. He was then living at Hare Hatch, near Maidenhead.
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