Publisher's Synopsis
Maria Edgeworth was a prominent Anglo-Irish writer who was a major influence in the development of the novel in Europe. Edgeworth was a prolific author who held advanced views on topics most women of her time were not involved in. Edgeworth and Jane Austen were considered to be the greatest female authors of the early 19th century. Madame De Fleury is a short novel that Edgeworth published in 1809 as part of her Tales of Fashionable Life collection.
