Maria Edgeworth’s “Emma” and Edward Knight’s Wedgwood China for sale….
Sotheby’s in London are to hold an auction – appropriately enough on the 16th December this year, the anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth – and among the lots on offer are two items with strong...
View ArticleMaria Edgeworth’s copy of Emma
…sold yesterday at Sotheby’s in London for £79,250. This was towards the lower end of the estimate,which was originally £70,00-100,000. We talked about this sale previously here. Even so, it was a...
View ArticleJane Austen and Maria Edgeworth on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour
We have investigated the links between Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen before on this site, and so when I heard today’s Woman’s Hour programme, which contained a discussion of the two, I though you...
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