Tales from Maria Edgeworth

xxiv, 411 pp. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomsons. "The author was born in England but lived most of her life in Ireland and in her stories, she wrote about the Irish, and portrayed them as they really were. While she never became very well known, she had a substantial influence on Scott, Turgenev and Thackeray." CONTENTS: Introduction; The Orphans; Lazy Lawrence; The False Key; Simple Susan; The White Pigeon; Forgive and Forget; Waste Not, Want Not, or, Two Strings to Your Bow; The Music; The Barring Out, or, Party Spirit; The Little Merchants; Tarlton; The Basket-Woman.