SOURCE: "Regional Perspective in Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction: The Case of Ormond," The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. X, No. 4, Autumn, 1979, pp. 331-38.
In the following essay, Howard analyzes Maria Edgeworth's treatment of Irish issues in her 1814 Ormond. Howard demonstrates how in this novel, an increasingly larger gap between Edgeworth's own views and those of the native Irish is revealed.
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