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WOMEN, EDUCATION AND LITERATURE
The Papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1768-1849
Part 1: The Edgeworth Papers from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Part 2: The Edgeworth Papers from the National Library of Ireland
Part 3: Edgeworth Papers from Other Libraries
CHRONOLOGY, 1768-1849
Listed below is a chronology of Key Events, Literary Context and Historical Events for the years 1768-1849, with relation to Maria Edgeworth and her family.
Key: Year: Age - Key Events
1768: 1 January - Maria Edgeworth born in Black Bourton, Oxfordshire
1773: 5 - March Anna Maria Elers, ME's mother, dies; July her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth marries Honora Sneyd; the family moves to Edgeworthstown; Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
1775: 7 - ME sent away to school in Derby; Jane Austen born; American Revolution
1776: American Declaration of Independence
1777: 9 - The family moves back to England; RLE becomes closely involved with the Lunar circle, including Thomas Day, James Keir, Josiah Wedgwood and Erasmus Darwin
1778: Fanny Burney, Evelina
1780: 12 - April Honora Sneyd dies; December RLE marries Elizabeth Sneyd, Honora's sister
1781: 13 - ME moves to a new school in London; she goes to stay with Thomas Day; Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
1782: 14 - The whole family move back to Edgeworthstown; Fanny Burney, Cecilia; Ireland achieves legislative independence
1783: 15 - Completed Adelaide and Theodore but never published it Thomas Day, Sandford and Merton (-1789)
1785: 17 - RLE a founder member of the Royal Irish Academy; Steam engine with rotary motion installed by Matthew Boulton and James Watt in Nottinghamshire
1788: The Regency crisis; the trial of Warren Hastings begins
1789: 21 - Death of Thomas Day; William Blake, Songs of Innocence; French Revolution
1790: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
1791: 23 - Family visit to Clifton; Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story; Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, I; Theobald Wolfe Tone founds the Society of United Irishmen
1792: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, II; Catholic Relief Act allows Catholics to practise law
1793: Further Relief Act grants Catholics parliamentary franchise and some civil and military rights
1795: 27 - Letters for Literary Ladies, to which is added an essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification; John Keats born
1796: 28 - The Parent's Assistant: or stories for children, 3 vols; Fanny Burney, Camilla; Insurrection Act in Ireland
1797: 29 - Helps her father to write A Letter to Lord Charlemont on the Tellograph and the Defence of Ireland; November Elizabeth Sneyd dies; Samuel Coleridge, Kubla Khan; Edmund Burke dies; Mary Wollstonecraft dies
1798: 30 - May RLE marries Frances Beaufort; Sept the family flee Edgeworthstown House in fear of a rebel attack; with RLE, Practical Education, 3 vols; Rebellion in Wexford defeated; General Humbert's French forces land in Co. Mayo, move almost as far as Co. Longford before defeat
1800: 32 - Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian Tale; Humphry Davy, Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide; Act of Union passed in Irish parliament
1801: 33 - Harry and Lucy, parts I and II; Rosamund, parts I-III; Frank, parts I-IV; Moral Tales for Young People, 5 vols; Belinda, 3 vols
1802: 34 - With RLE, Essay on Irish Bulls; ME and RLE visit Brussels and Paris; Chevalier Edelcrantz proposes marriage to ME and is refused; Mme de Stäel, Delphine
1803: 35 - Forced to leave Paris, as Napoleonic Wars resume; return to England; Erasmus Darwin, Temple of Nature
1804: 36 - Popular Tales, 3 vols
1805: 37 - The Modern Griselda, a tale; Battles of Trafalgar and Austerlitz
1806: 38 - Leonora, 2 vols
1809: 41 - With RLE, Essays on Professional Education; also Tales of Fashionable Life, vols I-III (Ennui, Almeria, Madame de Fleury, The Dun, Manoeuvring)
1812: 44 - Tales of Fashionable Life, vols IV-VI (Vivian, Emilie de Coulanges, The Absentee); War with USA
1813: 45 - Visit to London, where ME meets Byron and Humphry Davy; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
1814: 46 - Patronage, 4 vols; Continuation of Early Lessons, 3 vols; reads Waverley; begins correspondence with Walter Scott; Walter Scott, Waverley; Fall of Paris; Napoleon abdicates
1817: 49 - Harrington, a tale; and Ormond, a tale, 3 vols; RLE dies; Jane Austen dies
1819: 51 - Travels to London; George Eliot born
1820: 52 - Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Begun by himself and concluded by his daughter Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; Accession of George VI
1821: 53 - Rosamund: a sequel to Early Lessons, 2 vols; Keats dies; Death of Napoleon
1822: 54 - Frank: a sequel to Frank in Early Lessons, 3 vols
1823: 55 - Goes to Edinburgh; visits Scott in Abbotsford
1825: 57 - Harry and Lucy Concluded: being the last part of Early Lessons, 4 vols. Scott visits Edgeworthstown; Anna Laetitia Barbauld dies; Lords reject Catholic Emancipation Bill
1826: 58 - Takes over management of the estate from her brother, Lovell
1827: Lady Morgan, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys
1830; Accession of William IV
1833: 65 - Visits Connemara
1834: 66 - Helen, a tale, 3 vols; Slavery abolished in the British Empire
1837: Accession of Victoria
1845: Irish famine begins
1846: Repeal of the Corn Laws
1848: 80 - Orlandino; First publication of Fenian journal, United Irishman; Fenian rebellion put down
1849: 81 - ME dies and is laid to rest in a vault in Edgeworthstown
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