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Mar 18, 2006 · All this evil had arisen from Lady Berryl's passion for living in London and at watering-places. She had made her husband an ABSENTEE—an absentee from his home, his affairs, his duties, and his estate.
- The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
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- The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry.
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Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle.
Mar 29, 2018 · LibriVox recording of The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth. Read in English by Bruce Pirie. Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain.
The Absentee. Maria Edgeworth. Penguin, 1999 - Fiction - 277 pages. Maria Edgeworth's sparkling satire about the Anglo-Irish family of an absentee landlord is also a landmark novel of morality...
"The Absentee (1812) is the third of Maria Edgeworth's brilliantly comic novels on Irish life. In it, she wittily exposes the pernicious consequences for Ireland and for the...
