An adaptation of Castle Rackrent – a view from the audience
Castle Rackrent on stage The following article was submitted to us by Edgeworthstown-born poet Dr. Philip Brady about the adaptation of Maria’s Edgeworth’s book ‘Castle Rackrent’ staged in the Backstage Theater in Longford on the 8th, 9th and 10th November. Maria returns “Maria Edgeworth returned to Longford this weekend, and what a delight to meet […]
York Conference on Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth in York University Bernard Canavan attended the recent Maria Edgeworth Conference in York University. Held on the 29th and 30th June. He sent on the following report from the event. He himself is an artist from Edgeworthstown, living in London and thankfully an Edgeworth enthusiast. Re-discovery of a major lost Irish female voice […]
L’Abbé Edgeworth – An Edgeworth Abroad
The Abbé Edgeworth born Henry Essex Edgeworth Born Henry Essex Edgeworth into the notable Edgeworth family of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in 1745. His father, a Church of Ireland rector in the local Parish, took the exceptional step of breaking from ‘his class, his culture and his education’ and embraced Catholicism instead. ‘The scandal was immense’. Shortly […]
Edgeworths experiencing the 1798 rebellion
Despite her work as a novelist, short story writer and playwright, Maria Edgeworth was also a prolific letter writer. Therefore she wrote to family and friends about events that they witnessed and lived through. As a result Maria left us letters on how the Edgeworths were experiencing the 1798 rebellion. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 […]
William Edgeworth – Mapping Roscommon
William Edgeworth the cartographer Son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his third wife Elizabeth. William Edgeworth’s practical interests initially followed those of his father, such as surveying; he moved into cartography. His 1813 map of County Longford was noted. Soon William Edgeworth started mapping Roscommon with Richard Griffith. William Edgeworth is Mapping Roscommon A letter written […]
Why Maria Edgeworth matters
This item is courtesy of the Worcester Journal Why Maria Edgeworth Matters December 14, 2015 by Sean O’Rourke Believe me, I know. A nineteenth- century novelist may not seem the sexiest subject in the world. But try this: think of Maria Edgeworth as a woman who attempted to exert her influence far beyond the boundaries […]
Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth
The following post came from the Regency History website and is used by the kind permission of the author Rachel Knowles. She is researching Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth for her book. Maria Edgeworth more famous than Jane Austen Two of the women I am researching for my book—What Regency Women Did For Us—were novelists. […]
Spire of St. John’s Church in Edgeworthstown
The construction of the Spire of St. John’s Church in Edgeworthstown In 1811 – Richard Lovell Edgeworth, with the aid of his son William, erected the spire onto the Church of St. John’s in Edgeworthstown. St John’s Church To begin with several buildings occupied this site but it is not known when the present church […]