Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale taken from facts and from the manners of the Irish squires before the year 1782 by Maria Edgeworth Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) came to live in Ireland at the age of 15. The year was 1782, the same one in which Ireland...

Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first true historical novel and the first true regional novel in English. It is also widely regarded as the first family saga, and the first novel to use the...

Maria Edgeworth's 'Castle Rackrent' can be read as one of the earliest postcolonial novels. Edgeworth ultimately identifies with an English, or colonialist, point of view in the novel, but the Irish narrator still serves as an example of the voice of the colonized. Read...

Hinds, Kathryn. The Castle 0-7614-1007-4 2000. 80pp. ea. $19.95 ea. hc. Benchmark/Marshall Cavendish. Grades 5-8 These books do a good job of covering most aspects of life in the Middle Ages; the series gives readers a good idea of what living during...

In the following essay, Harden focuses on Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800), extolling the novel as the first in which Irish provincial life and character are carefully observed and depicted. harden examines the biographical and political events which shaped Edgeworth's views and writings and argues that of Edgeworth's novels, Castle Rackrent best demonstrates her literary talent.

In the following essay, Cronin singles out the specifically Irish characteristics of Edgeworth's; Castle Rackrent, including a "devouring interest in speech" and the "absence of plot. "

In the following essay, Brookes commends the harmony of intent, subject matter, and form of the essentially didactic Castle Rackrent.

Discusses the treatment of the themes of the "Big House" in Maria Edgeworth´s "Castle Rackrent" and Jennifer Johnston's "How Many Miles to Babylon?"