Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - Lucy…
MS. Eng. lett. c. 745, fols. 106-108
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - Lucy…
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. lett. c. 745, fols. 106-108
Summary
Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - Lucy Edgeworth ill in the Cabinet which used to be the schoolroom full of laughing and nonsense - reading early Scott novels to her - general dislike of St Ronan's Well except by Maria Edgeworth - Erskine's book - Letters on Prejudice - Miss Kennedy - 'I should hardly suspect you of sainting' - battledore and shuttlecock - Recollections of the Peninsula - Mr Lambert and Mr Whitney and their self-satisfaction - Harriet's school with Honora's additions - The Knights of Malta (Vertot) - a biography by Southey - the current Quarterly Review
Date
28 Jan 1824
Language
English
Physical extent
1 item
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Collection contents
Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century
Edgeworth family correspondence
General family correspondence, with two travel journals
Family correspondence of Harriet Edgeworth
Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - Lucy…
