SOURCE: "Castle Rackrent," in Maria Edgeworth's Art of Prose Fiction, Mouton, 1971, pp. 43-71.
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.
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