The complete online text of Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth.

The British author Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) wrote novels that are characterized by clear, vivid style, good humor, and lively dialogue. Maria Edgeworth was born on Jan. 1, 1767, the second of the 21 children (by four wives) of Richard Edgeworth, whose...

Maria Edgeworth was the best-known novelist in Britain from 1800 until the publication of Walter Scott's Waverley in 1814. She was also one of the most important writers of fiction for children in the nineteenth century. She developed the late-eighteenth...

On a literary tour in 1813, Maria Edgeworth was recognized by literary celebrities in London and Paris as one of the most important authors in the English-speaking world. Her only rival in popularity was Sir Walter Scott, who credited Edgeworth's tales o...

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...