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Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and… Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?

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Maria Edgeworth: Early 19th-Century Celebrity Novelist and… Key Contributor to the Birth of Classical Economics?
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London society buzzed with one name that spring: Miss Edgeworth.
The year was 1813. The Regency era was in full swing, and the upper class had assembled for the season in a pastel whirl of lace and silk, complete with calling cards and exclusive dinner parties. The Napoleonic Wars raged across continental Europe, but that did not stop society life from carrying on in all its dazzling elegance.
George III sat on the throne; Queen Charlotte presided over her court. A burst of interest in antiquity

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