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 | Elizabeth Fenton | Her father, the Reverend John Russel (or Russell) Knox
of Lifford in Donegal, was born about 1769 in Donegal, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin
. He later moved to Inishmagrath in Leitrim. Lawrence, Sir Henry, and Elizabeth Fenton. “Preface”. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton, edited by Sir Henry Lawrence and Sir Henry Lawrence, Edward Arnold. vi Burtchaell, George Dames, and Thomas U. Sadleir. Alumni Dublinenses. Alex Thom. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
's brother, |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eavan Boland | EB
's father, Frederick Boland
, was medievalist in law and classics at Trinity College, Dublin
. He later became a diplomat who became President of the United Nations General Assembly
in 1960. He died in 1985. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 61 Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon. 52 |
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 |
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