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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... young Percy Shelley trav- elled to Dublin to participate in a campaign demanding Catholic Emancipation . He advertised a pamphlet , An Address to the Irish People , in the following terms : The lowest possible price is set on this ...
... young Percy Shelley trav- elled to Dublin to participate in a campaign demanding Catholic Emancipation . He advertised a pamphlet , An Address to the Irish People , in the following terms : The lowest possible price is set on this ...
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... young ladies of St Cyr , under the patronage of Madame de Maintenon ' . Racine is by no means remote from Edgeworth : he was peculiarly the dramatist of a France scarred by religious con- flict , and wrote Esther in the year ( 1689 ) ...
... young ladies of St Cyr , under the patronage of Madame de Maintenon ' . Racine is by no means remote from Edgeworth : he was peculiarly the dramatist of a France scarred by religious con- flict , and wrote Esther in the year ( 1689 ) ...
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... young ladies of St Cyr , under the patronage of Madame de Maintenon ' . Racine is by no means remote from Edgeworth : he was peculiarly the dramatist of a France scarred by religious con- flict , and wrote Esther in the year ( 1689 ) ...
... young ladies of St Cyr , under the patronage of Madame de Maintenon ' . Racine is by no means remote from Edgeworth : he was peculiarly the dramatist of a France scarred by religious con- flict , and wrote Esther in the year ( 1689 ) ...
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... Young Pretender had been buried as recently as 1788. Frascati was also the name of the home of Lord Edward Fitzgerald , outside Dublin , while it is argued that the fictional Tusculum was based on an actual house , Bellevue ( from the ...
... Young Pretender had been buried as recently as 1788. Frascati was also the name of the home of Lord Edward Fitzgerald , outside Dublin , while it is argued that the fictional Tusculum was based on an actual house , Bellevue ( from the ...
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... young woman placed in a potentially hostile house , among other features , indicate an analogical relation between Esther and The Absentee , yet Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai never take up the point after the initial rebuke and ...
... young woman placed in a potentially hostile house , among other features , indicate an analogical relation between Esther and The Absentee , yet Maria Edgeworth and Rachel Mordecai never take up the point after the initial rebuke and ...
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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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