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The elusive Edgeworth.(Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation)(Book review)
From: Irish Literary Supplement
Date: 20060922
Author:Brown, Michael
CLIONA O GALLCHOIR Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation University College Dublin Press, 2005, 55 [euro] stg 42 [pounds sterling]; 25 [euro], stg 18.95 [pounds sterling]
IT HAS LONG BEEN A GIVEN of scholarship on Castle Rackrent that the servant of the Rackrent dynasty, and narrator of their history, Thady Quirk, is an untrustworthy, possibly duplicitous servant, perhaps even conniving in their displacement. It is perhaps indicative of the extent of the revision on offer in Cliona O Gallchoir's monograph study of Maria Edgeworth's fictions that Quirk is one of the ...
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