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#ThroughHerEyes Maria Edgeworth, celebrated novelist, essayist and assistant estate manager, was born on New Year's Day in 1768. Her editor Anna Letitia Barbauld told her: 'Write on, shine out, and defy them.' And that's exactly what she did. In Castle Rackrent (1800), she was https://t.co/pGehuBLQ4s

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#ThroughHerEyes Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was born #otd in 1832. I have to say I went off her after reading that she fired her Irish maid because of “the faults of her race.” Here, she shows her racist colours. https://t.co/PjwlKbZBkJ

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#ThroughHerEyes Constance Farrington (née Conner), history scholar, librarian, thinker and translator of the first English version of philosopher of the Algerian Revolution, Frantz Fanon's seminal work The Wretched of the Earth. On the effects of colonisation, she wrote: 'By a https://t.co/gQlJng2NgZ

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#ThroughHerEyes Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was born #otd in 1832. I have to say I went off her after reading that she fired her Irish maid because of “the faults of her race.” Here, she shows her racist colours. https://t.co/PjwlKbZBkJ

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#ThroughHerEyes Bridget G MacCarthy (1904-1993), Prof of English at UCC and writer once described as one of the most important female cultural and literary historians. Her book The Female Pen is on the to-read list. 'Often savagely witty, [it] discusses a vast array of fictional https://t.co/V9bcK0SPBb

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@CardColm I have great memories of the Texaco art competition; it really encouraged children to think about art. What a great legacy Nora Roberts leaves behind.

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#ThroughHerEyes #otd in 1914, George Bernard Shaw’s play ‘Pygmalion’ opened in London with Beatrice Tanner (stage name, Mrs. Patrick Campbell) as Eliza Doolittle. Beatrice was unafraid to play controversial roles including Mrs Tanqueray, ‘a woman with a past'. https://t.co/wIUNelMrZJ

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#ThroughHerEyes 'The people we love are built into us,' bestselling author May Sarton (1912-1995) wrote in her ode to solitude, The House by the Sea. It's on the to-read list. https://t.co/kxpqolXZGe

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#ThroughHerEyes Look what I got! Favourite so far, Bram Stoker's mother Charlotte who campaigned for education for deaf people. She was 'the family's driving force'... there was 'a sense of awe at her energy, intellect, and will'. She also inspired Dracula with her description https://t.co/8Q9U48Rv1E

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#ThroughHerEyes Maria Edgeworth, celebrated novelist, essayist and assistant estate manager, was born on New Year's Day in 1768. Her editor Anna Letitia Barbauld told her: 'Write on, shine out, and defy them.' And that's exactly what she did. In Castle Rackrent (1800), she was https://t.co/pGehuBLQ4s

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