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    14 MARIA EDGE WORTH.

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    mamma ?"—" was just . " Was good , mammawas vain like Laura nor proud , or was , thoug she vain h she and was proud uncommonl ?"— " She y " was beautiful good , : and she was superior neither in to of her that with

    lost understanding " her , mamma when she ? " was any said but person Laura fifteen . — " I " age , my dear I , ever she is was no more acquainted : her parents . "

    Apprehensive regarding the health of another of his children , Maria Mr . Ed made geworth her , in first 1792 acquaintanc , removed e with with , his " famil the world y to Cliffcon , " her , father where

    however carefully following up one of Ms favorite maxims , no but company the c , ultivated or good c and ompany the . w ' ell But -bred by good and lie his mean favorite t , not ' the anions fine / ; comp

    k being lace indred Mr continue sp . iri "Watt ts , d Miss , to Dr breathe . Ed Darwin gewor an , t Mr intellectual h , . thoug " Wed h gewood , at atmosp a , fashionable Mr here . Kier . , "When and watering ot Mr her .

    p ( afterwar , ds Dr . ) Beddoes , whose medical reputation was subsequently in so troduc high , tor first letter came from to Mr Clifton . Kier , he and broug Mr . ht Edgeworth to Mr . Ed who gew admired orth an

    his abilities y , materially assisted in , establishing the young , physician at Clifton .

    The mode of life there , however , suited the taste neither of Miss Edgeworth ' s father nor mother ; and hearing in the autumn of 1793

    that political disturbances were beginning to break out in Ireland he considered it his duty to return there immediately . " Our

    preparations for leaving Clifton , " says Maria , " seemed particularly to grieve and alarm Dr . Beddoes . During the summer ' s acquaintance with

    our Anna famil In y he had become of the strong declaration ly attached of to his one passion of my and sisters to ,

    time give her longer . opportunity consequence at Clifton to . see She more decided of him to , return my fath with er rema us to ine , Ireland d some

    that autumn , to take further time to judge of the permanence of DrBeddoe ' s feelingsand of her own . He had permission to follow

    her . in the spring , and , they were married at Edgeworthstown on the 17 th of April 1794 : "

    The aspect of , affairs in Ireland grew darker and darker . Towards the end of 1794 , rumours of a French invasion spread throughout

    the country ; and it becoming necessary that Government should possess means of imparting and receiving intelligence establishment in the most

    inventive rap of telegrap id manner hic _communication possible so far , Mr back . Ed , as geworth a scheme the year proposed which 1767 when had the occup he had ied tried his

    a nocturnal powers telegraph , with lamps and illuminated , letters , between London and Hampstead . In these days when the telegraph is

    how employe the d world with did such so eminent long without success it , it that is but the giving wonder honor seems to whom to be

    inven honor tors is due . The to mention proposal did not geworth , howeve r ,. find one fa vor its in first the British eyes of

    14 Maria Edge Worth.

    14 MARIA EDGE WORTH .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/14/