Rackrent

= Rackrent = (_Sir Condy_), in Miss Edgeworth’s novel of _Castle Rackrent_

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

It has been sometimes asserted that Miss Edgeworth was the parent and first inventor of that engine of instruction "The Novel with a Purpose," but if Castle Rackrent is a novel with a purpose, one would be glad to be told what that purpose precisely is?

Maria Edgeworth 1905

The only character drawn from the life in Castle Rackrent is 'Thady' himself, the teller of the story.

Maria Edgeworth 1905

Edgeworth's first novel, "Castle Rackrent" 1800, the story of a declining Anglo-Irish family as told by a colorful family retainer, seemed to him "one of the most inspired chronicles written in English."

Putting Sweet Sounds Together Wes Davis 2011

The dilapidated mansion at the center of a book like "Castle Rackrent" was a reminder of the actual past—a history of absentee landlords and dispossession—but the gothic atmosphere also turned the structure into the haunted antechamber of an occult world.

Putting Sweet Sounds Together Wes Davis 2011

An example of the so-called Big House genre, "Castle Rackrent" is part of a tradition that starts, as Mr. Foster puts it, "with the idea of history as a haunting."

Putting Sweet Sounds Together Wes Davis 2011

Classical models (the Greek romance); seventeenth-century antecedents (e.g., The Princesse de Cleves); eighteenth-century examples (e.g., Longsword, Earl of Salisbury); Scott's acknowledged influences (e.g., Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs).

Imaginary courses 2010

Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale ([London]: printed for J. Johnson, 1800)

Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) 2008

The Rackrent dynasty resembles her own forebears, while the narrator, Thady Quirk, is based on the Edgeworths 'steward, John Langan, whose accent, phrases and gestures she could mimic perfectly, amusing her aunt, Mrs Ruxton, with stories about him in 1793-5.

Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) 2008

In January 1800, Edgeworth published the first of her novels set in Ireland, Castle Rackrent, supposedly the memoirs of the Irish servant of a family of feckless Anglo-Irish gentry, and received very positively.

Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) 2008