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Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from
Britain in 1782, Castle Rackrent tells the story of three
generations of an estate--owning family as seen through the
eyes-and as told in the voice-of their longtime servant, Thady
Quirk, recorded and commented on by an anonymous Editor. This
edition of Maria Edgeworth's first novel is based on the 1832
edition, the last revised by her, and includes Susan Kubica
Howard's foot-of-the-page notes on the text of the memoir as well
as on the notes and glosses the Editor offers "for the information
of the ignorant English reader." Howard's Introduction situates the
novel in its political and historical context and suggests a
reading of the novel as Edgeworth's contribution to the discussion
of the controversial Act of Union between Ireland and Britain that
went into effect immediately after the novel's publication in
London in 1800.
The scientist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744 1817), educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford, was a Member of the Lunar
Society of Birmingham, where he exchanged ideas with other
scientists, including James Watt, and was known for his significant
mechanical inventions. However, Edgeworth's real interest was
education: in this 1788 two-volume work, written with his daughter,
the poet Maria Edgeworth (1768 1849), he draws on his own
experience of raising twenty children (by his four wives), from
which the work derives its authority and innovative character. The
work was very influential, and led to his Essays on Professional
Education (1809; also reissued in this series). The two volumes
discuss the theories of philosophers and educationalists, while in
general arguing for the importance and formative character of early
childhood experiences. Volume 1 deals with different areas of
childhood education, including play, learning, and obedience and
good behaviour.
The scientist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744 1817), educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford, was a Member of the Lunar
Society of Birmingham, where he exchanged ideas with other
scientists, including James Watt, and was known for his significant
mechanical inventions. However, Edgeworth's real interest was
education: in this 1788 two-volume work, written with his daughter,
the poet Maria Edgeworth (1768 1849), he draws on his own
experience of raising twenty children (by his four wives), from
which the work derives its authority and innovative character. The
work was very influential, and led to his Essays on Professional
Education (1809; also reissued in this series). The two volumes
discuss the theories of philosophers and educationalists, while in
general arguing for the importance and formative character of early
childhood experiences. Volume 2 discusses schooling, the idea of
creativity and imagination, and the relationship between public and
private education.
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744 1817) was a noted Irish
educationalist, engineer and inventor. This two-volume
autobiography, begun in 1808, was completed by his novelist
daughter Maria, and published in 1820. Edgeworth's interest in
education is evidenced by his reflections about how his childhood
shaped his character and later life. Volume 1, written by Edgeworth
himself and covering the period to 1781, reveals that his interest
in science began early; he was shown an orrery (a moving model of
the solar system) at the age of seven. As a young man, Edgeworth
attended university in Dublin and Oxford, studied law, and eloped
while still in his teens. He experimented with vehicle design,
winning several awards, and was introduced by Erasmus Darwin to the
circle of scientists, innovators and industrialists later known as
the Lunar Society of Birmingham. In 1781 Sir Joseph Banks sponsored
his election to the Royal Society.
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744 1817) was a noted Irish
educationalist, engineer and inventor. This two-volume
autobiography, begun in 1808, was published in 1820. Edgeworth had
abandoned the project in 1809, having covered the period to 1781,
and it was completed after his death by his eldest daughter, a
successful novelist. Maria Edgeworth and her father had co-authored
educational works, and the experience of helping her father run
their estate during her teens had provided material for her novels.
Volume 2 of these memoirs was wholly written by her, though it
contains excerpts from Richard's correspondence. It recounts how,
after his third marriage, the growing family returned to Ireland,
and focused first on domestic and educational concerns. Richard
became involved in Irish politics and the newly founded Royal Irish
Academy but continued to publish essays on scientific and
mechanical topics, as well as influential (though controversial)
works on education.
One of the foremost authors of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries, Maria Edgeworth (1768 1849) made the project
of women's education the pillar of her career. Letters for Literary
Ladies (1795), her first published work, takes up this question in
earnest, offering a staunch defence of women's intellectual
training and an impassioned warning against its neglect. The first
two letters likely draw from an exchange between Richard Edgeworth,
Maria's father, and his friend Thomas Day, presenting arguments for
and against educating young women in the sciences and philosophy.
The 'Letters of Julia and Caroline' illustrate this debate in
epistolary form, dramatising both sides of the argument. The final
'Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification' serves as a wry
critique of women's own self-deceptions. Complex and provocative,
Letters for Literary Ladies demonstrates Edgeworth's early
exploration of the subject that would define her career.
1 January 2018 will be the 250th anniversary of Maria Edgeworth's
birth. Valerie Pakenham's sparkling new selection of over four
hundred letters, many hitherto unpublished, will help to celebrate
her memory. Born in England, she was brought to live in Ireland at
the age of fourteen and spent most of the rest of her life at the
family home at Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford. Encouraged by her
remarkable father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, whose memoirs she
edited, she became, in turn, famous for her children's stories, her
practical guides to education and her novels - or, as she preferred
to call them, `Moral Tales'. By 1813, when visiting London, she
was, as Byron testified, as great a literary lion as he had been
the season before, and she was hugely admired by fellow novelists
Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. Maria Edgeworth's posthumous fame
has dwindled and only her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800), a
brilliant burlesque account of the Irish squirearchy, is still
widely read. She was, however, a prolific and fascinating letter
writer. She insisted that her letters were for private consumption
only, but after her death, her stepmother and half-sisters produced
a private memoir for friends using carefully selected extracts.
Their literary quality was spotted by Augustus Hare, whose
shortened version, The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth,
appeared in 1894. In the 1970s Maria's great great niece, Christina
Colvin edited Maria Edgeworth's Letters from England and Maria
Edgeworth in France & Switzerland. No one, however, has
revisited fully Maria's original letters from the place she loved
and knew best: Ireland. From 1825, Maria's letters reflect sixty
years of Irish history, from the heady days of Grattan's
Parliament, through the perils of the 1798 Rebellion to the rise of
O'Connell and the struggle for Catholic Emancipation. In old age,
she worked actively to alleviate the Great Famine and wrote her
last story to raise money aged 82. A treasure trove of stories,
humour, local and high-level gossip, her letters show the
extraordinary range of her interests: history, politics, literature
and science. Maria almost single-handedly took over the management
of her family estate and restored it to solvency. Her later letters
brim with delight at these practical undertakings and her affection
for the local people she worked with. Two of her half-sisters and
her stepmother were gifted artists, and Valerie Pakenham has been
able to use many of their unpublished drawings and sketches to
illustrate this book.
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Harrington (Paperback)
Maria Edgeworth; Edited by Susan Manly
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Harrington (1817) is the personal narrative of a recovering
anti-Semite, a young man whose phobia of Jews is instilled in early
childhood and who must unlearn his irrational prejudice when he
falls in love with the daughter of a Spanish Jew. In this novel,
Edgeworth attempts to challenge prejudice and to show how literary
representations affect public policy, while at the same time
interrogating contemporary understandings of freedom in English
society. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction
and a judicious selection of appendices, including correspondence
between Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus, excerpts from John
Toland's Letters to Serena and Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews,
an excerpt from Isaac D'Israeli's article on Moses Mendelssohn, and
contemporary reviews of the novel.
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Castle Rackrent (Hardcover)
Maria Edgeworth; Edited by Susan Kubica Howard
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Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from
Britain in 1782, Castle Rackrent tells the story of three
generations of an estate--owning family as seen through the
eyes-and as told in the voice-of their longtime servant, Thady
Quirk, recorded and commented on by an anonymous Editor. This
edition of Maria Edgeworth's first novel is based on the 1832
edition, the last revised by her, and includes Susan Kubica
Howard's foot-of-the-page notes on the text of the memoir as well
as on the notes and glosses the Editor offers "for the information
of the ignorant English reader." Howard's Introduction situates the
novel in its political and historical context and suggests a
reading of the novel as Edgeworth's contribution to the discussion
of the controversial Act of Union between Ireland and Britain that
went into effect immediately after the novel's publication in
London in 1800.
Maria Edgeworth’s sparkling satire about the Anglo-Irish family of an absentee landlord is also a landmark novel of morality and social realism. The Absentee centres 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 Colombre 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 Scott, Thackeray and Turgenev.
Castle Rackrent s publication in 1800 signaled many firsts: the
first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the
first big house novel, the first Anglo-Irish novel, and the first
novel with a narrator who is neither reliable nor part of the
action. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Baldwin &
Cradock edition that appeared as part of an eighteen-volume
collected edition titled Tales and Novels of Maria Edgeworth (1832
33). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Ryan
Twomey focuses the volume s Backgrounds and Contexts on Edgeworth s
importance as a writer, the influence of contemporary historical
events on her writing (most importantly, the Act of Union of 1800,
which united Ireland and Great Britain), and Castle Rackrent s
impact on the development of the novel. These include a selection
of Edgeworth s letters; five major contemporary reviews;
biographical pieces; Sir Walter Scott on Edgeworth and her response
to him; and excerpts from Edgeworth s juvenilia, The Double
Disguise. Criticism is thematically organized to give readers a
clear sense of Castle Rackrent s major themes: Irish writing and
specifically the Irish novel, narrative voices, patriarchy and
paternalism, and Edgeworth s Hiberno-English writing. Contributors
include Seamus Deane, Marilyn Butler, Katherine O Donnell, Julia
Nash, Joyce Flynn, and Brian Hollingsworth, among others. A
chronology of Edgeworth s life and work and a selected bibliography
are also included."
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Maria Edgeworth
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