To Fanny Wilson from Merrion Street - new…
MS. Eng. lett. c. 706, fols. 182-185
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
To Fanny Wilson from Merrion Street - new…
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. lett. c. 706, fols. 182-185
Summary
To Fanny Wilson from Merrion Street - new beginning of book - Mr Strickland - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth - Charles Boddenham - Kirke's sculptures - Boddenham banking disaster - loss of fortune part of novel plot - Bishop of Cloyne (Brinkley) - death of Wollaston - Wollaston's desire to marry - Miss Sebright and Mrs Heber - dinner at Crampton's - Misses Trench - Crampton's imitation of Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Maria Edgeworth's dislike of going out without her family - Fanny W's interest in public affairs - Catholic emancipation - Rienzi - Nightmare Abbey - Heber's Journal
Date
3 Mar 1829
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
Letters and papers of Maria Edgeworth
Letters from Maria Edgeworth to her half-sister Frances ('Fanny' Wilson)
To Fanny Wilson from Merrion Street - new…
