Maria Edgeworth

Irish novelist, whose stories represent a distinct stop in the development of fiction in English and are progenitors of similar productions including Sir Walter Scott’s novels of Scottish life.

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Sydney Morgan

Irish novelist Lady Morgan wrote many other books and was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation.

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Distinguished Austrian author. She wrote a number of novels depicting the life of the Austrian aristocracy in town and country, and in 1880 published a book of Parables, Fairy Tales and Poems.

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Ida Laura Pfeiffer

1800s Austrian traveler whos books include Journey of a Viennese to the Holy Land, Journey to the Scandinavian North, and a Women’s Journey round the World.

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