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Castle Rackrent

by Maria Edgeworth

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Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, 17, University of Rennes 2, English, Maria Edgeworth's Caste Rackrent was published in 1800 at the moment of political union between Ireland and Great Britain. This short novel was the first of her Irish tales. Set before 1782, a momentous period for the independence of the Dublin parliament, Thady Quirk, a servant in a big house tells us of four generations of the Rackrent family. As the Irish Catholic narrator, he recounts the decline of this Protestant landowning family who stems from Maria Edgewor...

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