Download or read book Castle Rackrent written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Castle Rackrent written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-08-28T18:08:16Z with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century Ireland, a privileged class of Anglo-Irish landowners known as the “Protestant Ascendancy” lived on great estates, with the mostly-Catholic Irish as their tenants and servants. Maria Edgeworth was part of this Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Castle Rackrent, her best known novel, satirizes the failures and follies of her Anglo-Irish peers, their mismanagement of their estates, and their abuse of their Irish tenants. The narrator of Castle Rackrent is Thady Quirk, whose family has served on the Rackrent estate for generations. Thady relates the life stories of four successive lords of Castle Rackrent and how their individual character and personality affect the lives and families that depend on them. Castle Rackrent was one of the first historical novels written in English, and Walter Scott later cited it as inspiration for his own Scottish historical novels. Edgeworth included two sets of explanatory notes on aspects of Irish life and culture for her English readers, footnotes in the main text and a “glossary” added in the second edition. These have been merged into a single set of endnotes in this Standard Ebooks edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Absentee written by Maria Edgeworth and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
Download or read book Castle Rackrent written by Maria Edgeworth and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only edition of this 1800 novel--widely regarded as the first historical novel--to include supporting materials on both the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel.
Download or read book Belinda written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ennui written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Glenthorn is bored and lacking oomph. But before you feel sorry for him, it is worth knowing that he has a pile of money, a grand title, estates in England and Ireland and no stress. That is until he finds out he is not Lord Glenthorn, the Anglo-Irish earl. He is in fact the peasant Christy O'Donoghoe, which is a fly in the ointment for his efforts to provide for the woman he loves. At the same time, he gets caught up in the violent Irish Rebellion of 1798. Can he shake off the ennui, become a self-made man and win the hand of his love? Those who enjoy Jane Austen's novels, including 'Persuasion', 'Sense and Sensibility', and 'Pride and Prejudice', will love 'Ennui'. Like Austen, Maria Edgeworth has a gift for gently exposing the hypocrisy and accidental comedy of Britain's 19th century upper-middle class. First published in 1809, 'Ennui' is a didactic novel, which means it aims to teach the reader a moral lesson - like 'Aesop's Fables'. The Irish writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was highly regarded in her day as a pioneer of early 19th century fiction and children's literature. A friend of the novelist Sir Walter Scott ('Ivanhoe', 'Rob Roy'), she was active and vocal about political and estate reform. Today, she is rather underappreciated - and overshadowed - by other 19th century satirical novelists like Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope. A prolific writer, Edgeworth's best-known works include 'Ennui', 'The Dun' and 'Belinda', which was controversial in its day for featuring inter-racial marriage.
Download or read book Harrington and Ormond written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell written by Professor Julie Nash and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford. Servant characters, Nash contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. Nash's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Castle Rackrent by M Edgeworth written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belinda written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maria Edgeworth s Irish Writing written by Brian Hollingworth and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maria Edgeworth is often regarded as a pioneer in the development of the regional novel and the use of vernacular language. This book is the first to offer an extensive discussion of all four of Edgeworth's major Irish tales, examining her attitudes towards language and regionalism in the context of her writing about Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Two Irish National Tales written by María Edgeworth and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, these two important Irish national novels are paired in one volume, suitable for courses in Anglo-Irish literature and history, Romantic studies, and women's studies. Contextual materials include commentaries by contemporaries and personal letters from both authors.
Download or read book Maria Edgeworth written by Marilyn Butler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1972 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daughter from the Dark written by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra—a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)—return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. A game of cat-and-mouse has begun. Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she’ll leave him—and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.
Download or read book Leonora written by Maria Edgeworth and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Leonora" by Maria Edgeworth. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Essay on Irish Bulls written by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo Irish written by Julian Moynahan and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moynahan begins in 1800 with the Act of Union and the dissolution of the Dublin Parliament, at which point the Anglo-Irish become Irish. Just as the fortunes of this community begin to wane, its literary power unfolds. The Anglo-Irish produce a haunting, memorable body of writings that explore a unique yet always Irish identity and destiny. Moynahan's exploration of the literature reveals women writers - Maria Edgeworth, Edith Somerville, Martin Ross, and Elizabeth Bowen - as a generative and major force in the development of this literary imagination. Along the way, he attends closely to the Gothic and to the mystery writing of C.R. Maturin and J.S. Le Fanu, and provides in-depth revaluations of William Carleton and Charles Lever.
