A review by elizastudying
The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

4.0

The more Edgeworth I read, the more I enjoy it. She is just a very well-versed, witty writer, who manages to put a lot of opinion and background into her novels without it being annoyingly foregrounded. This one in particular I enjoyed because of its nice mix of intrigue, romance, depictions of Irish peasantry, nationalism, commentary on absentee landlords, and descriptions of the higher classes at the time.