Vivian

From Tales and Novels, Volume V.

(1857)

Becoming an old maid was preferable to an incompatible union. The story of Vivian (also published in Tales of Fashionable Life and Patronage) attacks eighteenth-century English Whig governance of Ireland as corrupt and unrepresentative. Edgeworth strove for the self-realization of women and stressed the importance of the individual. She also wanted greater participation in politics by middle class women.

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