Published in 1820, this memoir of an influential educationalist and inventor sheds light on eighteenth-century social and intellectual history.

However, Edgeworth's real interest was education: in this two-volume work, written with his daughter, the poet Maria Edgeworth, he draws on his own experience of raising twenty children (by his four wives), from which the work derives its ...

Practical Education is an educational treatise written by Maria Edgeworth and her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth.