Anna Maria Beddoes (1773-1824): Daughter of the Irish educational writer and engineer, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817; DNB) and younger sister of the novelist, Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849; DNB). In April 1794 she married Thomas Beddoes, an acquaintance of her father’s. The marriage produced two sons (including the poet, Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849; DNB) and two daughters but proved unhappy - Anna Maria Beddoes had at least three extra-marital relationships, including with Humphry Davy, and captured the highs and lows of these in her poems. After Beddoes’s death she was left in considerable financial difficulties. She died in Florence.