"Richard Lovell Edgeworth: A Selection From His Memoirs" by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer, and inventor. Richard Edgeworth and his family lived in Ireland at his estate at Edgeworthstown, County Longford, where he reclaimed bogs and improved roads. He advocated Catholic Emancipation and parliamentary reform and was a founder-member of the Royal Irish Academy. In this book, his daughter, a prolific novelist, assisted her father in writing his life story for future generations.