Background
Frances Anne Beaufort was born at Flower Hill in Navan, County Meath, in 1769. In 1788, she accompanied her father on a tour of Ireland, recording archaeological sites and objects.
Frances Anne Beaufort was born at Flower Hill in Navan, County Meath, in 1769. In 1788, she accompanied her father on a tour of Ireland, recording archaeological sites and objects.
She was educated at Mrs Terson"s School at Portarlington, learning writing, drawing, dancing and French. She studied art further under the English artist Bowring, Dublin-based Francis Robert West, and Raymond Deshouilleres of London.
She was the stepmother and confidant of the author Maria Edgeworth. She was one of four children of Daniel Augustus Beaufort and Mary Beaufort (née Waller). The family lived in London from 1789 to 1790.
A visitor to Edgeworthstown in 1813, James Hall, makes reference to her as a "successful" author, with a published novel, What You Choose to Call it or The Good Wife.
This attribution was repeated in 1884, but is not mentioned by the family or their papers. lieutenant is known that Edgeworth wrote a memoir of Maria Edgeworth, containing selected letters.
Some of Edgeworth"s letters are held by the National Library of Ireland, and in the Bodleian Library. The Edgeworths went on to have six children together: Frances Maria Edgeworth (1799 – 4 February 1848), Harriet Edgeworth (1801–1889), Sophia Edgeworth (1803–1836), Lucy Jane Edgeworth (1805–1897), Francis Beaufort Edgeworth (1809–1846), and Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (24 May 1812 – 1881).
Edgeworth died on 10 February 1865 at Edgeworthstown, County Longford.