Maria Edgeworth

“ My plans of going to England this summer have been all broken up: you know how, as you have heard of the death of my dear sister Anna, [2] at Florence; the account of her loss reached me just when I was joyfully expecting an answer to a letter full of projects which she never lived to read. GOD'S will be done. We expect my nieces, Anna and Mary, at Edgeworthstown as soon as they return from Italy.
Footnotes ↑ The Bishop of Meath died in 1823; and Mrs. O'Beirne and her daughters went to reside in England.↑ Anna Edgeworth, Maria's whole sister, had married Dr. ”