McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Standard Name: Fitzgerald, Lord Edward
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
was a member of the Britisharistocracy; both her mother (English) and her father (Scots) came from long-titled families. Her formative experiences were those of a member of her class. Through her mother her heritage... |
| Friends, Associates | Emily Eden | EE
's friends included George Villiers
(Lord Clarendon) and his sister Lady Theresa Villiers
(later Lewis), and Pamela Fitzgerald (later Lady Campbell)
. Lady Campbell was the daughter of romantically-associated parents: Lord Edward Fitzgerald
... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | Hester Piozzi
referred all this as common knowledge when she met EH
. Hervey remained a friend of Merry
after his marriage and perhaps shared his acquaintance with the Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald
... |
| Occupation | Thomas Moore | TM
later established himself as a biographer with a string of books: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825), an edition of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830), and... |
| politics | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
's associate John Hurford Stone
celebrated the new Republic at a British Club
dinner party in Paris: Lord Edward Fitzgerald
toasted radical writers (including Williams, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charlotte Smith
). Keen, Paul. “Review”. Eighteenth Century Fiction, Vol. 14 , No. 2, Jan. 2002, pp. 229-35. 234 Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 47 |
| Textual Features | Anna Wheeler | It is a melodramatic tale of a noble Irish nationalist rebel (suggestive of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
) executed by a decadent and worthless member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, Captain Cleaveland, who comes from a section... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Hervey | It is variously and descriptively set in Wales (where it opens near the mountains of Snowdon and Penmaenmawr), Ireland, and South Carolina, where Ned's adventures begin with landing at Charlestown (or Charleston)... |
| Textual Production | Katharine Tynan | KT
said she began writing her novel about an earlier Irish nationalist hero, Lord Edward
: A Study in Romance, five days before the Easter Rising. Some library catalogues give the title with [Fitzgerald]... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Medbh McGuckian | This is an anniversary volume, looking back two hundred years to a watershed year in Irish history: a year of assassinations, martial law, the Rebellion or Rising that began in late May, the virtual wiping... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | It is set in Dublin and Connemara during the 1790s, the time of the author's own youth, with closing scenes in Paris. The large cast of characters includes ancient Catholic landowning families of the... |
Timeline
4 June 1798: Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a leader of the United...
National or international item
4 June 1798
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
, a leader of the United Irishmen
and implicated in the ongoing Irish Rebellion, died in Newgate Prison, Dublin, of the effects of a wound sustained while resisting arrest.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1825: Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life...
Writing climate item
1825
Thomas Moore
published Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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