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Book, page 1 / 129 This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1891 Cassell and Company edition. MURAD THE UNLUCKY AND OTHER TALES by Maria Edgeworth Contents: Introduction Murad the Unlucky The Limerick Gloves Madame de Fleury INTRODUCTION Maria Edgeworth came of a lively family which had settled in Ireland in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Her father at the age of five-and-twenty inherited the family estates at Edgeworths-town in 1769. He had snatched an early marriage, which did not prove happy. He had a little son, whom he was educating upon the principles set forth in Rousseau's "Emile," and a daughter Maria, who was born on the 1st of January, 1767. He was then
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