1798-1799
Letters from Edgeworthstown, Longford, and Dublin to Miss Sophy Ruxton, Mrs. Ruxton, Miss Charlotte Sneyd.
The Irish Rebellion: Lord Cornwallis, Lady Anne Fox--Flight from Edgeworthstown to Longford--Return to Edgeworthstown--Publication of _Practical Education_--Theatricals: _Whim for Whim_--At Dublin.
1799-1802
Letters from Clifton, Edgeworthstown, and Loughborough to Mrs. Ruxton, Miss Ruxton.
At Clifton: Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. Beddoes, Mrs. Barbauld--Death of Dr.
Darwin--Literary work at Edgeworthstown: _Castle Rackrent, Belinda, Early Lessons, Moral Tales, Essay on Irish Bulls_--Visits of Mr.
Chenevix and Professor Pictet--Journey to London.
1802-1803
Letters from London, Brussels, Chantilly, Paris, Calais, Edinburgh to Miss Sneyd, Miss Sophy Ruxton, Mrs. Mary Sneyd, Mrs. Ruxton, C.S.
Edgeworth.
A visit to Miss Watts at Leicester--Journey to Paris: Calais, Dunkirk, Bruges, Ghent--Madame Talma in _Andromaque_ at Brussels--Palace of Chantilly--Paris: Madame Delessert, Madame Gautier, Madame de Pastoret, M. Dumont, Abbe Morellet, M. Suard, Marquis of Lansdowne, M. Degerando, M. Camille Jordan, Madame Campan, Madame Recamier, Baron de p.r.o.ny, Rogers, M. Pictet, Kosciusko--Monsieur Edelcrantz proposes to Maria Edgeworth; her feelings towards him--Buonaparte--Madame d"Ouditot and Rousseau--Rumours of war--The Edgeworths return to England--Account of a visit to Madame de Genlis.
1803-1809
Letters from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Black Castle, Edgeworthstown, Rosstrevor, Allenstown, Pakenham Hall to Mrs. Ruxton, Miss Honora Edgeworth, Miss Charlotte Sneyd, Miss Ruxton, Henry Edgeworth, C. Sneyd Edgeworth, Mrs. Edgeworth.
Visit to Lindley Murray at Newcastle--Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh--Return to Edgeworthstown--Literary work: _Popular Tales, Leonora, Griselda_--Marriage of Miss Pakenham to Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)--Death of Dr. Beddoes.
1809-1813
Letters from Edgeworthstown, Black Castle, Bangor Ferry, Liverpool, Derby, Cambridge, London to Miss Ruxton, Miss Honora Edgeworth, Mrs.
Ruxton, C. Sneyd Edgeworth, Miss Sneyd, Mrs. Edgeworth.
Publication of _Tales of Fashionable Life_: Madame de Stael, Lord Dudley, Lord Jeffrey upon--Life at Edgeworthstown: Mr. Chenevix, Miss Lydia White, Sir Henry Holland, Mrs. Inchbald, Mrs. Barbauld, Hannah More, Lady Wellington--Marriage of Sir Humphry Davy--Literary pursuits: Byron"s _English Bards_, Scott"s _Lady of the Lake_ and _Rokeby_, Campbell: _Patronage, Tales of Fashionable Life_ (second series), _The Absentee_--Balloon ascent of Sadler--Journey to London: Roscoe, Dr.
Ferrier, Sir Henry Holland--Visit to Cambridge and to Dr. Clarke at Trumpington.
1813-1817
Letters from London, Malvern Links, Ross, Edgeworthstown, Dublin, Black Castle to Miss Ruxton, Mrs. Ruxton, Sir Walter Scott, C.S. Edgeworth.
Visit to London: Madame de Stael, Davy, Byron, Miss Berry"s, Lord Lansdowne, Lady Wellington, Mrs. Siddons, the Prince Regent, Lady Elizabeth Monk, Dukes of Kent and Suss.e.x, Sir James Macintosh, Dumont, Sir Samuel Romilly, Dr. Parr, Malthus, Madame d"Arblay, Rogers--Return to, and life at Edgeworthstown: _Early Lessons, Popular Plays, Harrington, Ormond--Waverley_--Illness and Death of Mr. Edgeworth.
1817-1820
Letters from Edgeworthstown, Mount Kennedy, Bowood, Epping, Hampstead, Byrkely Lodge, Tetsworth, London, Dublin, Heathfield, Canterbury to Mrs.
Ruxton, Mrs. Stark, Mrs. Edgeworth, Miss Ruxton, Miss Waller, Miss Lucy Edgeworth, Miss Honora Edgeworth.
Literary pursuits at Edgeworthstown: Miss Austen--Visits to Bowood: Lord Lansdowne, Dumont, Lord Grenville, Mr. Hare, Dugald Stewart--Death of Sir Samuel Romilly--Joanna Baillie, Watt, Campbell--London: Mill, Wilberforce, Duke and d.u.c.h.ess of Wellington, Lord Palmerston--Visit to Ireland--Journey to Paris.
1820
Letters from Paris, La Celle, Pa.s.sy, Geneva, Pregny, Berne to Mrs.
Edgeworth, Mrs. Ruxton, Miss Ruxton, Miss Lucy Edgeworth, Miss Honora Edgeworth.
Paris: d.u.c.h.esse de Broglie, Madame Recamier, Camille Jordan, Cuvier--p.r.o.ny"s anecdotes of Buonaparte--Visit to M. de Vinde"s country-house--A visit to the Duke of Orleans at Neuilly--d.u.c.h.esse d"Angouleme, Casimir Perier, d.u.c.h.esse d"Uzes, Humboldt, Malthus--Journey through Switzerland: Dumont, M. de Stael.
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