Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales (Electronic book text)

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 Edgeworths-town 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