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This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.The Edgeworth family have been the subject of much scholarly research in terms of literature, science, and education over the past thirty years. This large family - the patriarch Richard Lovell had twenty-two children - participated in cultural, political, and scientific networks across Ireland, Britain, and Europe during the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries and corresponded with several notable writers, thinkers, scientists, and politicians, which has resulted in a large manuscript archive housed in institutions across the world. Though selections of correspondence were made available in print during the twentieth century, now digital tools are being used to create a global "virtual" collection and online, searchable catalogues of their extant correspondence, while digital research is making newly visible, and visible in new ways, the nature of their network and the collaborative nature of the ways it made and circulated knowledge. This article offers a new perspective on the extant Edgeworth correspondence, and the way it has been understood for the past half century, made possible by reassessing the network data (including correspondents, dates, and location of letters) as presented in library catalogues.
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