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Lord and Lady Clonbrony are more concerned with fashionable London society than with their responsibilities to those who live and work on their Irish estates. Concerned by this negligence their son Lord Colambre goes incognito to Ireland to observe the situation and to discover... Read Full Overview

The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, first published in 1812, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry. With many turns to the plot the novel has lots of information about Ireland... Read Full Overview

Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle. Colambre travels incognito... Read Full Overview

The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry.

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Irish author in the early 19th century. Edgeworth was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and corresponded with other famous authors such as Sir Walter Scott and the economist David Ricardo.

Lord Clonbrony and his ambitious, worldy wife lead an extravagant social life in London on the proceeds of their estates in Ireland. Their son, Lord Colambre, refusing to marry the heiress arranged for him by his mother, decides instead to investigate, incognito, the management... Read Full Overview

A novel of social observation in which Maria Edgeworth examines the effects of absentee landownership and the obligations of class and estate.

In The Absentee, Edgeworth follows the fortunes of a young heir whose family estate in Ireland has long been... Read Full Overview

Maria Edgeworth was one of Europe's first true novelists. Working during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Edgeworth wrote prodigiously for both adults and children, with her works helping to define realist novels and social commentaries.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle... Read Full Overview

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Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire on January 1st 1768. Her early years were with her mother's family in England. Sadly, her mother died when Maria was five.

Maria was educated at Mrs Lattafi re's school in Derby in 1775. There she studied dancing, French... Read Full Overview