The Maria Edgeworth Letters Project is a collaborative digital edition of letters written by Maria Edgeworth and shared by over 30 archives around the world. We are currently in the process of transcribing these letters through the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform with the goal of creating a fully searchable database of her letters.
General editors of the project are Susan Egenolf, Meredith Hale, Hilary Havens, Jessica Richard, and Robin Runia.
The digital team is Carrie Johnston and Bryan Tarpley.
Design by Kayley Hart and KWALL.
Unsure where to start? Check out some of our favorite letters for new visitors.
By Jessica Richard [NB: this post was originally written for the blog of the Manuscripts & Archives Research Collections at The Library of Trinity College, the University of Dublin] Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), an Anglo-Irish contemporary of Jane Austen, was probably the most famous and most prolific woman novelist writing in English in her time. She was …
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