Eine Pflanze für unseren neuen #Literaturgarten?, überlegte ich, als ich das Schild las.
Denn bei #Edgeworthia dachte ich sogleich an die irische Schriftstellerin Maria Edgeworth, die ich im werdenden Roman zitiere.
Ich lag nur leicht daneben: der auch #Papierbusch genannte Strauch wurde nach ihrem Halbbruder benannt, dem Botaniker Michael Pakenham Edgeworth – und vielleicht auch etwas nach ihr. Da muss ich noch tiefer tauchen.
Maria Edgeworth, born #OTD 1768 at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England. Lived most of her life in Ireland, in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford. Prolific author of novels and educational works under her own name.
#dib: https://www.dib.ie/biography/edgeworth-maria-a2882
"What Irish Enlightenment? The case of Maria Edgeworth"
https://oll.libertyfund.org/reading-room/2023-02-28-donway-irish-enlightenment-maria-edgeworth
“My accomplished friend”: the life and philosophy of Maria Edgeworth
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/01/01/maria-edgeworth/
My new paper is out, and it’s #OpenAccess !🥳🎉🙌
This one’s a revamped #essay I wrote as part of my #scicomm major and explores the important, though overlooked, role of women in early Western #ScienceCommunication and #SciencePopularisation. 🌱📚👩🔬
I use #PriscillaWakefield as a case study, but she is one of many incredible science communicators of her time ! (see eg #JaneMarcet, #MariaEdgeworth ✨)
Before reading about Edward Despard, l hadn't known there was an auxillary to the #UnitedIrishmen called the United Englishmen, or of the executions relating to 1803 #RobertEmmet Rising outside Dublin.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/despard-edward-marcus-a2543
#Kildare connection: his wife Catherine left destitute stayed for a time at Lyons, near Hazelhatch. Given the interracial marriage in "Belinda", I wonder if #MariaEdgeworth knew of her.
https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/9234
Re https://bird.makeup/users/lorraineelizab6/statuses/1627896422623322113
21 Jan: Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine #OTD 1793, 230 years ago.
He was attended by the Abbé de Firmont the night before, who witnessed the deposed king's farewell to his family, heard #LouisXVI 's confession, and stayed with him right up to the foot of the guillotine.
de Firmont had been born in Co. Longford. His name in English was Henry Essex Edgeworth, and he was a cousin of #MariaEdgeworth.
#DIB bio:
https://www.dib.ie/biography/edgeworth-de-firmont-abbe-henry-essex-a2885
Pic: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_XVI_au_pied_de_l'%C3%A9chafaud.jpg
The #1798Rising informed #MariaEdgeworth 's novels "Castle Rackrent" and "Ennui". This article covers both that, and the (now difficult to believe) contemporary erasure of Protestant involvement in the Rising. (This, despite many of the leaders being Protestant *and* the fierce fighting in Antrim and Down.)
"Ascendancy and the 1798 Rebellion in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809)"
Two more #1798Rising #YearOfTheFrench tweet and a connection to #IrishPhilosophy: #MariaEdgeworth was in Longford at the time of Humbert's invasion.
https://books.google.ie/books?id=q6RWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365
Chapter VIII covers her experience, including the unexpected saving of their house due to a rebel's gratitude to the housekeeper (pp. 370-1), her father accused of conspiring with the French (pp. 374-5) and an appearance by Sarrazin (p. 376) captured after French defeat at Ballynamuck near Granard #Longford.
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