Irish Literary Supplement, September 22nd, 2005
SHARON MURPHY Maria Edgeworth and Romance. Four Courts Press, 2004, 45 [euro], $50.00
ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC writers for adults and children in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland, Maria Edgeworth was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She enjoyed literary pre-eminence in an era when aesthetic categories had not been formalized but lived to see a decline in the popularity of her work as expectations of the naturalistic novel evolved. Largely written out of post-independent Irish literary history due to her Anglo-Irish status and unionist affili...
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