Book description
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…
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The originality of this novel in being a first-person narration by a Catholic working man on an English-owned Irish estate is extraordinary (as too its original popularity, since its readers must largely have been from the class which is described so unflatteringly in the novel!).
Edgeworth clearly took her inspiration from her own Irish workforce and, indeed, her own dissolute, spendthrift, conniving, or weak-willed relations, hence the novel’s reliability in terms of historical accuracy – enhanced by her own explanatory Glossary.
Sir Walter Scott loved it, and Jane Austen (whom Edgeworth outsold in her day) was a fan – so…
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