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3. Sonia Johnson, Ph.D., came to public notice when excommunicated by Mormon Church for feminism, in the late 1970's.
4. Suzette Haden Elgin, Ph.D., professor of linguistics San Diego State University (retired). Linked to Herbert Marcuse as a graduate student, co-authored with Dr. John Grinder a seminal textbook on generative grammar (1972) inventor of the constructed women's language Laadan. She has devoted much of her career to development of her ideas on non-violence through a series of science fiction novels (Native Tongue, etc.) and the "Gentle Art of Verbal self-defense" non-fiction series.
5. Edgeworth's debt to French political economy and literary theory are perhaps equally worthy of exploration, as is her interest in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
6. Prof. Roger Woolhouse (University of York), in Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich [OUP, 1995] p. 496. RSW's entry on John Locke (pp. 493-96 OCP) is a superior brief explication of Locke's epistemology, in the context of his contemporaries, and his historic importance.
7. I am using Castle Rackrent and Ennui, Penguin Classics edition edited by Marilyn Butler, 1992. Here the quote is from p. 168 of this edition, near the end of Chapter v.
8. Ennui, p. 168
9. Castle Rackrent, p. 75
10. Castle Rackrent, p. 86
11. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography, Marilyn Butler (Oxford: Clarendon press, 1972)
12. The specific name given - O'Shaughlin, does not appear in MacLysaght's The Surnames of Ireland, though the basic idea is clearly enough expressed, and Quirk (O Quirke) is listed as the name of a leading Tipperary sept of Clanwilliam with many synonyms and translations. Of course, the O'Shaughessy's of Glenthorn (in Ennui) were Gaelic as well, which Maria Edgeworth, obviously, was not.
13. Castle Rackrent, p. 118
14. The 1798 Rebellion and the larger context of 19th Century European nationalism.