Volume 10
Edited by Elizabeth Eger and Clíona ÓGallchoir
Selected short fiction
Introductory Note; ‘Preface’, ‘Lazy Lawrence’, ‘Waste Not, Want Not’, ‘Forgive and Forget’, ‘Simple Susan’, ‘The Mimic’, ‘The Orphans’, ‘The Basket Woman’, ‘The White Pigeon’, The Parent’s Assistant (1800); ‘Forester’, ‘Angelina’, Moral Tales for Young People (1801); Endnotes; Textual Variants
These are Edgeworth’s non pedagogical tales for children. They are pioneering evocations of the world of the child, as seen thought the eyes of children themselves.