WOMEN, EDUCATION AND LITERATURE
The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849

Part 1: The Edgeworth Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

It provides a platform for the study of Anglo-Irish Literature, Female education, Literary life and society, c1789-1850, and Women’s Writing and Women’s Reading, as well as Gender Studies.

Part 1 covers the papers of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) and family from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. These feature a strong collection of literary manuscripts, together with correspondence for the period 1819-1849.

The literary manuscripts feature 15 notebooks with draft passages for published and unpublished works; story plans, poems, and notes on reading. There are also draft and fair copies of published works, anecdotes and outlines of plays.

The correspondence is equally rich and includes c2000 letters from Maria Edgeworth, and many more from her family. Correspondents include: Joanna Baillie; Mrs Barbauld; Lady Bathurst; Erasmus Darwin; Leigh Hunt;
Elizabeth Inchbald; Andr Morellet; and William Roscoe.

Also included are Financial and Estate Papers; Pedigrees and Genealogical notes; Drawings, silhouettes, daguerreotypes and photographs; and a Calendar of the Edgeworth family correspondence in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the National Library of Ireland, compiled by Christina Colvin.