Everything related to the 250 year celebration of Maria Edgeworth
The Edgeworth encounter with Modernity on the Trinity College Maria Edgeworth Conference Regarding the 250th anniversary of the great writer Maria Edgeworth‘ the Trinity College Maria Edgeworth Conference’ took place this weekend 8./9. December 2018. Those of us who grew up in the shadow of the Edgeworth big house in County Longford in the 1950s […]
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 […]
Premier of Maria Edgeworth The following article was written by Edgeworthstown born poet Dr. Philip Brady about the show ‘Maria in Mind’ premiered at the 2018 Edgeworth Literary Festival. “Maria Edgeworth In Mind” Edgeworthstown May 2018 Maria Edgeworth is not dead. She came back to Edgeworthstown today to celebrate her 250th birthday. Moving quietly […]
Celebrating Maria’s 250th anniversary Today – – the 1st of January 2018 – we are celebrating Maria’s 250th anniversary. Daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and heavily influenced by him. She was an enlightenment intellectual, writer and moralist. Also acutely aware of the responsibilities of her class and supported her father throughout his life in affecting […]
