Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth

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

Old photo of St John's Church showing the old spire erected by the Edgeworths

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 […]