Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: The Bracelets by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: The Bracelets by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Reproduction of the original: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT112216Anonymous. By Maria Edgeworth. In 'Letters for literary ladies', London, 1795. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1795. 79, 1]p.; 8

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT137068London: printed for J. Johnson, 1798. 2v.(x, 2],775, 19]p.)plates; 4

The novel is set prior to the Constitution of 1782 and tells the story of four generations of Rackrent heirs through their steward, Thady Quirk. The heirs are: the dissipated spendthrift Sir Patrick O'Shaughlin, the litigious Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the cruel husband and gambling absentee Sir Kit Stopgap, and the generous but improvident Sir Condy Rackrent. Their sequential mismanagement of the estate is resolved through the machinations