Helen
Author: first_name: Maria
last_name: Edgeworth
Language: English
Year: 1834

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education.<br /><br />

Here is what one biographer of Maria Edgeworth has to say about Helen.<br />
"It was in 1830–when already past sixty years of age–that Miss Edgeworth set to work upon