... in Britain, 1694-1994 . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1996 . Butler Marilyn . “Introduction.” Castle Rackrent and Ennui . Ed. Butler Marilyn . Harmondsworth : Penguin Classics , 1992 . —. “Irish Culture and Scottish Enlightenment: Maria Edgeworth's Histories of the Future...

..." The Byron Journal 9 (1981): 4-19 and Gary Kelly's essay "Amelia Opie, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Maria Edgeworth: Official and Unofficial Ideology" Ariel 12 (October 1981): 3- 24. Kelly is the novel's most respectful critic: he has gone on to periodically reconsider it, for exam- ple, in English Fiction...

... (two female cousins), whose work followed in the tradition of Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800) and Lady Morgan’s (Sidney Owenson) The Wild Irish Girl (1806). Twentieth-­century writers in the Big House genre include Bowen, Molly Keane, William Trevor, John Banville, and arguably Edna...

... by a nodding reference to Maria Edgeworth s Castle Rackrent (1800) or Scott s Waverley (1814) most of the historical accounts at our disposal discuss regionalism as though it were a homegrown genre that emerged fully formed in the second half of the nineteenth century in response to indigenous circumstance...