SOURCE: "Epilogue: A Literary Perspective," in Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972, pp. 481-88.
In the following essay, Butler discusses Edgeworth as an innovator in the development of the novel of everyday life for a middle-class readership.
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