Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Wilson. An old Irish steward narrates four generations of the family he served — the drunkard, the litigant, the absentee, the fool — in his own voice, without once noticing what he is describing. Edgeworth helped run her father's estate in County Longford and published this in 1800, the year of the Union; Scott said it taught him how to write a nation. It is the first regional novel in English. Fifty-eight plates after Gainsborough, Wilkie and others follow the Irish and English gentry through their estates and portraits, a fitting visual counterpart to Edgeworth's chronicle of four generations of one family.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Wilson. An old Irish steward narrates four generations of the family he served — the drunkard, the litigant, the absentee, the fool — in his own voice, without once noticing what he is describing...
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Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist who lived and worked at the Edgeworth family estate in County Longford, Ireland. She wrote Castle Rackrent (1800), The Absentee (1812), and the collection Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales (1809), among other works of fiction and education.
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist who lived and worked at the Edgeworth family estate in County Longford, Ireland. She wrote Castle Rackrent (1800), The Absentee (1812), and the collection Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales (1809), among other works of fiction and education.
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