ISBN: 9781478225157

The Absentee centers around Lord and Lady Clonbrony, a couple more concerned with London society than their duties and responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. … Plus…

The Absentee centers around Lord and Lady Clonbrony, a couple more concerned with London society than their duties and responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. Recognizing this negligence, their son Lord Colambre goes incognito to Ireland to observe the situation and trace the origins of his beloved cousin Grace. To put matters straight he finds a solution that will bring prosperity and contentment to every level of society, including his own family.In her Introduction, Heidi Thomson explores the political and social themes of the book and places it in its historical context. With Castle Rackrent and The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth helped create the regional novel, rich in atmosphere and local character, and influenced writers as disparate as Sir Walter Scott, William Thackeray, and Ivan Turgenev.Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was the eldest daughter of an Anglo-Irish landholding family. Returning to Ireland from years in England at the age of fourteen, Maria involved herself with the management of her father's estate. She came to know the people and the country very well and wrote of it in her successful novels, including Castle Rackrent, Ennui, Ormond, and others. Heidi Thomson is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781478225157

The Absentee centers around Lord and Lady Clonbrony, a couple more concerned with London society than their duties and responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. … Plus…

The Absentee centers around Lord and Lady Clonbrony, a couple more concerned with London society than their duties and responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. Recognizing this negligence, their son Lord Colambre goes incognito to Ireland to observe the situation and trace the origins of his beloved cousin Grace. To put matters straight he finds a solution that will bring prosperity and contentment to every level of society, including his own family.In her Introduction, Heidi Thomson explores the political and social themes of the book and places it in its historical context. With Castle Rackrent and The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth helped create the regional novel, rich in atmosphere and local character, and influenced writers as disparate as Sir Walter Scott, William Thackeray, and Ivan Turgenev.Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was the eldest daughter of an Anglo-Irish landholding family. Returning to Ireland from years in England at the age of fourteen, Maria involved herself with the management of her father's estate. She came to know the people and the country very well and wrote of it in her successful novels, including Castle Rackrent, Ennui, Ormond, and others. Heidi Thomson is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781478225157

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Maria Edgeworth was as popular in her day as her great contemporary Sir Walter Scott, and 'The Absentee' (1812) is her best n… Plus…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Maria Edgeworth was as popular in her day as her great contemporary Sir Walter Scott, and 'The Absentee' (1812) is her best novel, a work which vividly evokes the conditions of the Irish peasantry and launches a sustained attack on the Anglo-Irish absentee landlord class. John Ruskin said that 'you can learn more of Irish politics [by reading 'The Absentee'] than from a thousand columns out of blue-books.', Classics<

ISBN: 9781478225157

A morality about Irish landlords living in England who ignore their natural duties and station in life. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publishin… Plus…

A morality about Irish landlords living in England who ignore their natural duties and station in life. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781478225157

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