Encyclopedia > Castle Rackrent

Article Content

Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1800. This short novel is often regarded as the first true historical novel and the first true regional novel in English.

The story of the Rackrent family is narrated by their steward, Thady Quirk. The characters, the country-life and the language used in the novel are unmistakably Irish.

The novel is one of the few of Miss Edgeworth's novels which her father did not 'edit'.

External Link

the e-text of Castle Rackrent (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=336)

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Sanskrit language

... preceding vowel or as a nasal homorganic[?] to the following consonant. Vedas Sanskrit had a pitch (music) or tonal accent, but it was lost by the Classical period. ...