Castle Rackrent

Name: Castle Rackrent
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Author: Maria Edgeworth
ISBN: 9781443437745

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Maria Edgeworth

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Paru le : 10/06/2014

Faithful family employee Thady Quirk recounts the decline, over four generations, of the Rackrent family. Through gambling, hapless litigation, and general... > Lire la suite

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Faithful family employee Thady Quirk recounts the decline, over four generations, of the Rackrent family. Through gambling, hapless litigation, and general extravagance the Rackrent's ruin is accomplished, but Thady is steadfast in defence of his masters. With the short novel Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth is said to have originated a number of literary genres and subgenres, including the historical novel, the Anglo-Irish novel and the "Big House" novel, a uniquely Irish subject in which the big house, where the typically English landlord lived, is surrounded by peasants.
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Date de parution : 10/06/2014
Editeur : HarperPerennial Classics
ISBN : 978-1-4434-3774-5
EAN : 9781443437745
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 176 pages

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Biographie de Maria Edgeworth

Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children's works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee.
Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women's rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute.
She died in 1849 at the age of 81.