Cliona O Gallchoir, Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment, Nation.(Book review)

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From: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Date: 20060922
Author:O'Connell, Michelle

Cliona O Gallchoir, Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment, Nation. Dublin: UCD Press, 2005. xi+221pp. 55 [euro] (42 [pounds sterling]) Hardback 25 [euro] (18.95 [pounds sterling]) Paperback.

In Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation, Cliona O Gallchoir has made a significant contribution to our assessment of Maria Edgeworth's writing. Admitting that any assessment of Edgeworth is necessarily (we might say torturously) complex, O Gallchoir has made a virtue of that very necessity, her readings of Edgeworth's works taking in many of the political and social contexts ...

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