Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict 1798 - Hardcover

Todd, Janet

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9780670911165: Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict 1798

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ISBN 10: 067091116X ISBN 13: 9780670911165

Publisher: Viking, 2003

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In May 1798, the Earl of Kingston, who wrote this note, was tried before the Irish House of Lords for the murder of his cousin Colonel Henry Fitzgerald. The Earl had been enraged by Henry's seduction of his teenage daughter, Mary. The family was nowat war in love and politics: Kingston's other daughter, Margaret, had become a member of the United Irishmen and the Earl's trial was to be their moment of mass revolt against English rule.

Janet Todd's story of this extraordinary family brings to life the years leading up to1798 - the turning point in the fate of Ireland and the Anglo-Irish aristocracy.

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Synopsis:

Two sisters, two rebellions. In 1797/8, London and Dublin society was scandalised by the elopment of Mary, daughter of the Earl of Kingston (a leading member of the Irish aristocracy) with her cousin Henry Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was subsequently murdered by the Earl, his own adopted father and the Earl elected to face trial before his peers in the Irish House of Lords. Ireland in 1798 was in the throes of rebellion and the Earls's elder daughter, Margaret, helped to organise a plot by the United Irishman to use the trial as a flashpoint for revolution and an uprising of the United Irishman. The plot was foiled and the rebellion quashed (with cruel ferocity) by her brother George. This is a true story where public and private words collide in a story of love, betrayal, ambition and rebellion.

About the Author:

Janet Todd has been a pioneer in the recovery of early women writers. She has worked in universities in Africa, the US and Britain and is currently the Francis Hutcheson Professor at the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Fellow of Lucy CavendishCollege, Cambridge. She is the author of more than fifteen works of non-fiction, including most recently, her biographies of Aphra Behn (1996) and Mary Wollstonecraft (2000). She lives in Cambridge.

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