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Elizabeth Edgeworth's sisters, Charlotte and Mary Sneyd, had lived entirely at Edgeworthstown, not only beloved and honoured by the children of their two sisters, but tenderly welcomed and cherished by the children of their predecessor, especially by Maria, to whom no real aunts could have been more dear. During the seventeen years through which her married life lasted, Mrs.
Of these, Edward, the elder, became Bishop of Down and Connor, and died without children; but the younger, Francis, became the founder of the family of Edgeworthstown.
MARIA to MRS. RUXTON, AFTER RETURNING FROM A VISIT TO BLACK CASTLE. EDGEWORTHSTOWN. October 1791. My dear mother is safe and well, and a fine new sister, I suppose you have heard.
Between one and two is luncheon: happy time! Lady Lansdowne is so cheerful, polite, and easy, just as she was in her walks at Edgeworthstown: but very different walks are the walks we take here, most various and delightful, from dressed shrubbery and park walks to fields with inviting paths, wide downs, shady winding lanes, and happy cottages not dressed, but naturally well placed, and with evidence in every part of their being suited to the inhabitants.
She knows an infinite number of anecdotes about interesting places and persons, which she tells extremely well, and never except when they arise naturally out of the subject. . . . To crown her merits, she seemed to take a prodigious fancy to me, and promised to be at home, and made me promise to be at Edgeworthstown for a fortnight some time next vacation. We owe to him also an amusing sketch of some other collateral members of the family; the fine animated old lady, who immediately gets him to explain the reason why a concave mirror inverts while a convex mirror leaves them erect; the young ladies, one of whom was particularly anxious to persuade him that the roundness of the planets was produced by friction, perhaps by their being shaken together like marbles in a bag.
S.C. Hall's is perhaps the best picture extant of the family life at Edgeworthstown. She says: * Our principal object, in Longford County, was to visit Edgeworthstown, and to spend some time in the society of Miss Edgeworth.
MARIA to C. SNEYD EDGEWORTH, ESQ. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Feb. 12, 1835. I feel your kindness now most particularly in giving me your full opinion, and desiring mine without one word of reproach on not having heard from me.
MARIA EDGEWORTH to MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, June 1809. What do you think of this plan? Write next post, as, while my father is away, I am going to write a story for his birthday. I have another sub-plan of writing "Coelebina in search of a Husband," without my father's knowing it, and without reading Coelebs, that I may neither imitate nor abuse it.
Davy's Lectures not only opened a new world of knowledge to ourselves and to our young people, but were especially gratifying to Mr. Edgeworth and Maria, confirming, by the eloquence, ingenuity, and philosophy which they displayed, the high idea they had so early formed of Mr. Davy's powers. MARIA EDGEWORTH to MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 1811.
Poet, dramatist, and essayist, s. of an Irish clergyman, was b. at Pallasmore in Co. Longford. His early education was received at various schools at Elphin, Athlone, and Edgeworthstown. At the age of 8 he had a severe attack of smallpox which disfigured him for life. In 1744 he went to Trinity Coll., Dublin, whence, having come into collision with one of the coll. tutors, he ran away in 1746.
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