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	Castle Rackrent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Castle Rackrent is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1800.
		The story of the Rackrent family is narrated by their steward, Thady Quirk.
		The novel is one of the few of Miss Edgeworth's novels which her father did not 'edit'.
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	Speaking Subalterns and Scribbling Colonists: Narrative Voice in Castle Rackrent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Castle Rackrent has from the outset always been Maria Edgeworth's most popular work of fiction, and her readers' preference has been echoed by the vast majority of her learned critics.
		Castle Rackrent embodies a similar tension, but it might be more apt to describe it, on the surface, as difference between rather than difference within.
		Most of Castle Rackrent is what the Russian Formalists have called a "skaz" narrative, in which writing takes on the characteristics of spoken language, as it does in Huckleberrry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye.
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	Amazon.ca: Castle Rackrent: Books: Maria Edgeworth,Anne Thackeray Ritchie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Castle Rackrent's narrator, Thady Quirk, gives us four generations of Rackrent heirs - Sir Patrick, the dissipated spendthrift; Sir Murtagh, the litigating fiend; Sir Kit, the brutal husband and gambling absentee; and Sir Condy, the lovable and improvident dupe of Thady's own son, Jason.
		Maria Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent," published in 1800, the year of Irish union with Great Britain, and just two years after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, is supposedly a comic satire intended to show after years of unrest, that the Irish were civil enough to be assimilated into the British Empire.
		"Castle Rackrent" is indeed an ambivalent testament to the future of the Irish nation as it is swallowed up into the British Empire at the turn of the 19th century, and an intriguing read.
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	PRIVILEGED OR IMPRISONED IN THE ANGLO-IRISH BIG HOUSE?
		Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth was first published in 1800 at the time of the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
		Lady Murtagh Rackrent, it would seem, made the most of her residency in Castle Rackrent; she had poor children spinning for her for free, she collected duty yarn and household linen from the tenants, and she extorted "presents" of food (fowl, eggs, honey, butter, meal, fish, game, bacon, and ham) from the tenants.
		After Murtagh Rackrent dies as a result of an argument with Lady Rackrent over which of the two of them had the right to the abatement money, a generous jointure is settled upon her, and she departs Castle Rackrent a much wealthier woman than when she arrived.
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	Amazon.com: Castle Rackrent (The World's Classics): Books: Maria Edgeworth,George Watson,Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adding to the underlying irony of the narrative is the contrast between Thady and the anonymous, condescending British voice of the mock glossary of terms.
		Humorous and biting, Castle Rackrent is a largely unrecognized jewel of social satire.
		With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814).
	www.amazon.com /Castle-Rackrent-Worlds-Classics-Edgeworth/dp/0192823949 (1541 words)

	CASTLE RACKRENT & ENNUI - Maria Edgeworth - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Castle Rackrent is Irish family history vividly and unreliably narrated by the loyal servant Thady, steward on the decaying Rackrent estates.
		Beginning as the 'confessions' of an old-regime aristocrat, Lord Glenthorn's story takes him to Ireland, and impels him in a fable of bizarre transformations to play a reluctant part in Ireland's year of Revolution, 1798.
		'When Castle Rackrent and Ennui are paired, they read as perhaps the boldest, most innovative and most influential contribution to English language fiction by a woman writer before Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot.' - Marilyn Butler in the introduction.
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	K. Wixson: National Bodies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although not physically imprisoned in a room, Sir Murtagh Rackrent's wife (another woman without a first name) is nonetheless imprisoned in her marriage because she cannot regain control of the assets she owned prior to her marriage to Sir Murtagh unless she outlives him.
		Isabella escapes the confinement of Castle Rackrent by obtaining Sir Condy's permission to return to her family home in Mount Juliet's town; she escapes the marriage by outliving Sir Condy.
		Lady Murtagh's tyranny over Castle Rackrent's servants and tenants illustrates Wollstonecraft's assertion in Vindication that "[o]bedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render assurance doubly sure' one kind of despotism supports another" (150).
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	Inter-nationalism: Castle Rackrent and Anglo-Irish union Novel: A Forum on Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The vehicle and emblem for these seemingly contradictory maneuvers is a cross or X. A similarly curious X-shaped cross appears as the only non-linguistic, graphic mark in Castle Rackrent, a novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth which was published in 1800, on the eve of Union.
		An Irish landlord, Sir Conolly Rackrent, decides to flip a coin to determine whom he will marry: Isabella Moneygawl, the daughter of a neighboring landlord, or Judy M'Quirk, a local peasant.
		Yet even this seeming decisiveness is compromised insofar as Judy later returns to the story as the potential wife of Castle Rackrent's next owner as well.
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	Edgeworth, Maria \| Castle Rackrent: Feminism in Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the following essay, Graham examines Edgeworth’s treatment of the concept of union—between male and female and between England and Ireland—in Castle Rackrent.
		For Irish literary and cultural criticism, Castle Rackrent (1800) is placed almost irresistibly at the moment of the Act of Union; it sets a narrative which faces back to a pre-Union ‘chaos’ against an authorising ‘Preface’ which looks with anticipation to the new post-Union century.
		I want to examine how the squeezed historical moment of Union, balanced precariously on the thinnest definition of fins de siècle and the gender issues inherent in the text, can be made vital to uncovering a critique of...
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	Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He tells the history of the Rackrent family in his vernacular idiom, and in the full confidence that Sir Patrick, Sir Murtagh, Sir Kit, and Sir Condy Rackrent's affairs, will be as interesting to all the world as they were to himself.
		Her table the same way—kept for next to nothing—duty fowls, and duty turkies, and duty geese, came as fast as we could eat 'em, for my lady kept a sharp look out, and knew to a tub of butter every thing the tenants had, all round.
		The ladies too were as attentive as possible, striving who should be foremost with their morning visits; and they that saw the diamonds spoke very handsomely of them, but thought it a pity they were not bestowed, if it had so pleased God, upon a lady who would have become them better.
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	Castle Rackrent Summary - Maria Edgeworth
		After the death of Sir Patrick O’Shaughlin, his fine and generous master, Honest Thady Quirk found himself working at Castle Rackrent for the heir, Sir Murtagh, a penny-pinching owner with a vicious temper.
		After Sir Murtagh died in a fit of temper, she stripped Castle Rackrent of its treasures and went to live in London.
		The estate passed to her husband’s younger brother, Sir Kit Rackrent, a wild, carefree man. Finding the estate in debt and heavily mortgaged, Sir Kit went to...
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	Castle Rackrent; And, Ennui; Author: Edgeworth, Maria; Editor: Butler, Marylin; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
		Castle Rackrent; And, Ennui; Author: Edgeworth, Maria; Editor: Butler, Marylin; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
		A two-in-one volume containing Marie Edgeworth's 'Castle Rackrent' (a saga involving a dissolute Irish family) and the haunting, romantic 'Ennui'.
		A two-in-one volume containing Marie Edgeworth's 'Castle Rackrent' (a saga involving a dissolute Irish family) and the haunting, romantic 'Ennui'.Castle Rackrent (1800) is Maria Edgeworth's first novel, and tells the story of a dissolute Irish family.
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	Castle Rackrent Summary
		It is also widely regarded as the first family saga, and the first novel to use the de...
		Discusses the treatment of the themes of the "Big House" in Maria Edgeworth´s "Castle Rackrent" and Jennifer Johnston's "How Many Miles to Babylon?"
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	Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
		Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth With an Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie [Note: The body of this novel contains a lot of footnotes and many references to the Glossary at the end.
		The footnotes (which are sometimes quite long) have been inserted in square brackets near to the point where they were referred to by suffix in the original text.
		This text and the Introduction were taken from an edition published by Macmillan and Co. in 1895.]
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	Castle Rackrent eBook
		But when I saw she had made up her mind to spend the rest of her days upon her own income and jewels in England, I considered her quite as a foreigner, and not at all any longer as part of the family.
		She gave no vails to the servants at Castle Rackrent at parting, notwithstanding the old proverb of ‘as rich as a Jew,’ which she, being a Jewish, they built upon with reason.
		But from first to last she brought nothing but misfortunes amongst us; and if it had not been all along with her, his honour, Sir Kit, would have been now alive in all appearance.
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	Castle Rackrent
		When a long-time servant of the Rackrent family decides to write about family members whom he has served, the result is a stylishly entertaining exploration of master/servant relationships.
		In a realm where a villain reigns, mysterious events aid in fulfilling a prophesy that spells doom for the ruler and justice for the rightful heir.
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	Fictionwise eBooks: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
		A politically-charged satire on Anglo-Irish landlords, Castle Rackrent is a critically-acclaimed and thoroughly enjoyable novel.
		The social commentary critiques not only class but also gender roles, acutely discussing the marginalization of women in the eighteenth century.
		In Castle Rackrent, published in 1800, the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie rise to power.
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	Amazon.com: Castle Rackrent (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Maria Edgeworth,George Watson,Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Key Phrases: raking pot, please your honor, whiskey punch, Sir Condy, Castle Rackrent, Sir Kit (more...
		HAVING out of friendship for the family, upon whose estate, praised be Heaven!
		Sir Condy, Castle Rackrent, Sir Kit, Sir Murtagh, Sir Patrick, Mount Juliet, Miss Isabella, Lady Cathcart, The Editor, Judy M'Quirk
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	Two Irish National Tales: "Castle Rackrent, the Wild Irish Girl" - Price Comparison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics) - Price Comparison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
		I and mine have lived rent free time out of mind, voluntarily undertaken to publish the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family, I think it my duty to say a few words, in the first place, concerning myself.
		The family of the Rackrents is, I am proud to say, one of the most ancient in the kingdom.
		Now it was that the world was to see what was in Sir Patrick.
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	Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth: Author's Preface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		He tells the history of the Rackrent family in
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	Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth - Mobipocket eBook
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	2 Irish National Tales: Castle Rackrent/The Wild Irish Girl:0618084878:Edgeworth, Maria; Owenson, Sydney; Smith, ...
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	Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth: Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Thady begins his memoirs of the Rackrent Family by dating MONDAY
		--When an Irish gentleman, like Sir Kit Rackrent, has lived beyond his
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