Old Edgeworthstown Photographs
Michael Pakenham Edgeworth is best known for this work in the field of botany and for his diaries about his time in India. But he also took some photos of his home, Edgeworth House in Edgeworthstown. The Old Edgeworthstown Photographs below are surviving examples of his work. They make up part of a collection called […]
Book Illustrations
It was not uncommon for books in the 19th Century to feature illustrations – Sidney Paget’s work for Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ series is quite well known. Some of Maria Edgeworth’s books were illustrated by a lady called Chris Hammond who also did illustrations for books by Jane Austen, Oliver Goldsmith and William Thackeray. […]
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 […]