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

#IrishHistory

Re https://bird.makeup/users/lorraineelizab6/statuses/1627896422623322113

30 Jan: William Carleton died in Dublin #OTD 1869. A well-known novelist and short-story writer, he was born in Tyrone, aimed to be a priest, converted to COI and became a teacher & writer.

#MariaEdgeworth admired his Irish tales; he in turn praised her "Castle Rackrent".

His friendship with Charles Gavan Duffy led to links with the #YoungIrelanders. Though he did not share their politics, the influence of #ThomasDavis & others led him to address political themes.

https://dib.ie/biography/carleton-william-a1480

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

#LouisXVI

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)"

https://journals.openedition.org/1718/534?lang=en

The #1798Rising informed #MariaEdgeworth 's novels "Castle Rackrent" and "Ennui". This article covers both that, and the erasure of Protestant involvement in the Rising (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)"

https://journals.openedition.org/1718/534?lang=en

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.

“You have heard of the established belief in the infallibility of the sovereign pontiff, which prevailed not many centuries ago – if man was allowed to be infallible, I see no reason why the same privilege should not be extended to woman.” Maria Edgeworth, born #OTD in 1768 #MariaEdgeworth

@seanjcostello Thanks! #MariaEdgeworth, one of the great underestimated #Irish #WomenWriters 😍 ❤️

1 Jan: #MariaEdgeworth was born in Black Bourton Manor, Oxfordshire, England in 1768. Best known as a novelist, she also wrote extensively on education.

Her first work "Letters for literary ladies" (1795) was a response to her father's friend Thomas Day's belief women should not be educated, and a section of Belinda (1801) satirises Day's & Rousseau's views of women.

("Belinda" is mentioned in Austen's "Northanger Abbey")

#DIB bio & image: https://www.dib.ie/biography/edgeworth-maria-a2882

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

1 Jan: #MariaEdgeworth was born in Black Bourton Manor, Oxfordshire, England in 1768. Best known as a novelist, she also wrote extensively on education.

Her first work "Letters for literary ladies" (1795) was a response to her father's friend Thomas Day's belief women should not be educated, and a section of Belinda (1801) satirises Day's & Rousseau's views of women.

#DIB bio & image: https://www.dib.ie/biography/edgeworth-maria-a2882

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

Read the preface to John Bew's "Castlereagh" for an account of the march to Bantry. Bew reports a member of Pitts Cabinet being told that, if the French had disembarked on 22nd December, by 4th January they would have been in Dublin.

On 25th December the Catholic bishop of Cork, Francis Moylan, preached against the "irreparable ruin, desolation and destruction occasioned by French fraternity", based on personal accounts by Abbè Edgeworth (#MariaEdgeworth 's cousin).
https://www.historyireland.com/catholic-wind-bantry-bay/

@justjessphd

#Barbados
#dialectology
#MariaEdgeworth
#JaneAusten
#Jewish studies