The absentee / Maria Edgeworth, edited with an introduction and notes by W.J. McCormack and Kim Walker.
By: Edgeworth, Maria
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Contributor(s): McCormack, W. J | Walker, Kim.
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BookSeries: World's classics: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1988Description: xlvii,315p ; 19cm + pbk.ISBN: 0192816829; 9780192816825.Subject(s): Administration of estates -- Fiction | Absentee landlordism -- Fiction | British -- Ireland -- Fiction | Landowners -- Fiction | Socialites -- Fiction | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 | Classic fiction | Ireland -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Satire.DDC classification: 823.7 EDG Summary: Set in London, this novel describes the attitudes of an Irish landowning family towards their tenants, and the pernicious consequences for Ireland and the wider world of absentee landownership. The work includes appendices showing how Edgeworth revised the text from the 1st edition.
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| Fiction | MTU Kerry North Campus Library Fiction | 823.7 EDG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000340244 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Lord Clonbrony and his ambitious, worldy wife lead an extravagant social life in London on the proceeds of their estates in Ireland. Their son, Lord Colambre, refusing to marry the heiress arranged for him by his mother, decides instead to investigate, incognito, the management of the family estates in Ireland. Appalled by the corruption, mismanagement, and poverty he discovers, he sets about finding a solution to his father's debts and the family's wilful indifference. Maria Edgeworth's classic novel combines a fast-miving depiction of national manners with a brilliantly witty expose of the pernicious system of absentee landownership.
Bibliography: xliii-xliv.
Set in London, this novel describes the attitudes of an Irish landowning family towards their tenants, and the pernicious consequences for Ireland and the wider world of absentee landownership. The work includes appendices showing how Edgeworth revised the text from the 1st edition.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Maria Edgeworth was born in Blackbourton, Oxfordshire, England on January 1, 1767. She was educated at a school in Derby, England and then attended a school in London. In 1782, she went to live with her father at Edgeworthstown and acted as his chief assistant and secretary in the management of his estates. She helped educate her brothers and sisters, and the stories she invented for them were later published under the title The Parents Assistant.Her novels and stories fall into three categories: sketches of Irish life, commentary on contemporary English society, and instruction in children's moral training. Her first work, Letters for Literary Ladies, a plea for the reform of woman's education, was published in 1795. She would later collaborate with her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth on Practical Education and Essays on Professional Education. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent, was published in 1800. Her other works include Belinda, Moral Tales, The Absentee, and Helen.
During the Irish famine (1845-1847), she did what she could to alleviate the suffering of the Irish peasants including having a large quantity of flour and rice sent over from Boston to give out among the starving. She died in 1849 at the age of 82.
(Bowker Author Biography)