The AbsenteeOxford University Press, 2001 - 315 sidor 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 familyestates 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. |
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... father's second marriage in 1773 , she went with him to Ireland , where she was eventually to settle on his estate , Edgeworthstown , in County Longford . A keen business sense and a close personal interest in the tenants on the estate ...
... father's second marriage in 1773 , she went with him to Ireland , where she was eventually to settle on his estate , Edgeworthstown , in County Longford . A keen business sense and a close personal interest in the tenants on the estate ...
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... father , she has been acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of education and of writing for children . The Absentee occupies a crucial position in relation to all three of these areas of operation . It is set altern- ately in England ...
... father , she has been acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of education and of writing for children . The Absentee occupies a crucial position in relation to all three of these areas of operation . It is set altern- ately in England ...
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... father might have found some of this acceptable in theory , but in their experience it would have appeared woefully remote from possibility . In simple political terms her case would seem to be that the Union need not involve a ...
... father might have found some of this acceptable in theory , but in their experience it would have appeared woefully remote from possibility . In simple political terms her case would seem to be that the Union need not involve a ...
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... father , the link with previous history , is virtually a cipher in the fiction ) . And consider the irony of ... father's sister - in - law ) that it had interested her enough ' the next day to read Madame de Sévigné's account of its ...
... father , the link with previous history , is virtually a cipher in the fiction ) . And consider the irony of ... father's sister - in - law ) that it had interested her enough ' the next day to read Madame de Sévigné's account of its ...
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... father , the link with previous history , is virtually a cipher in the fiction ) . And consider the irony of ... father's sister - in - law ) that it had interested her enough ' the next day to read Madame de Sévigné's account of its ...
... father , the link with previous history , is virtually a cipher in the fiction ) . And consider the irony of ... father's sister - in - law ) that it had interested her enough ' the next day to read Madame de Sévigné's account of its ...
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THE ABSENTEE | xlvii |
Textual Note | 263 |
The Tradition of Grace Nugent | 272 |
Maria Edgeworths Notes for Essay on the genius Style of Burke | 278 |
Explanatory Notes | 281 |
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