Kendall, Kathryn M. Note (or conversation) about Maria Edgeworth to Isobel Grundy.
Trinity College, University of Dublin
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Reception | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Professionally, Morgan was a notable success. She was a canny businesswoman, never afraid to assert herself against an established publisher or seek out a new one. This paid off in a remarkable level of earnings... |
Reception | Maria Edgeworth | The manuscripts of ME
's novels, held at Trinity College
, Dublin, were destroyed as not worth preserving. |
Reception | Iris Murdoch | IM
was early appreciated as an Irish writer. An honorary degree was awarded her by Queen's University, Belfast
, in 1977, followed by others from Trinity College, Dublin
in 1985 and Coleraine University
in 1993... |
Publishing | Mary Leadbeater | The University of Pennsylvania
paid $976 US for a copy of this collection (not in mint condition) at the Peyraud
sale in 2009. Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 43 , No. 1, pp. 151-63. |
Publishing | Samuel Beckett | During the same year Eugene Jolas
published in the June number of transition Beckett's short story entitled Assumption, and on 14 November the Trinity College, Dublin
, student newspaper, A College Miscellany, published... |
politics | May Laffan | As well as strongly opposing the convent or the clerical education system, ML
took a strong interest in the Irish university problem. When she was writing her novels Catholics were discouraged from attending the long-established... |
politics | Anna Swanwick | The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Colin Campbell | LLC's father, Edmond Maghlin Blood
, was born in 1815 to Neptune and Bridget Blood, at Brickhill in County Clare. He attended Trinity College
, and lived in Limerick, in Dublin and London in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
's father, John William Clerke
, was Skibbereen's bank manager until 1861. A former classical scholar, he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin,
and was a landowner in the district of Skibbereen. His interest... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
's younger brother, Aubrey St John Clerke
, after receiving an education at boarding school and Trinity College
, became a Chancery
barrister in London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 831 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Mary Clerke | EMC
's father, John William Clerke
, was a bank manager, land-owner, classical scholar, and amateur astronomer who had graduated from Trinity College
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | ML
's father, Richard Shakleton
or Shackleton, from a family which had settled in Ireland from Yorkshire, was a schoolmaster at Ballitore School
. Unusually for a Quaker, he had been educated at Trinity College |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Mary Clerke | EMC
's brother, Aubrey St John Clerke
, graduated from Trinity College
and practised as a barrister in London. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Davys | MD
(whose name at the time is unknown) married Peter Davys
, a graduate of Trinity College
, Dublin; the marriage was cut short by his early death. If she did indeed publish a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Tynan | They held their marriage ceremony at the home of the MeynellWilfrid Meynell
s in Palace Court, London. On her marriage KT
took her husband's name for social and personal purposes, although she continued to publish... |
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