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A review by elizastudying
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
4.0
This is supposed to be the first Anglo-Irish novel and very comic. I found it rather dry to be honest. It just recounts the different lords of Castle Rackrent with a heavy focus on the last one with a very tragic ending. It is told by the unreliable narrator Thady O'Quirk who was one of the main servants of the Rackrents. It is sometimes funny, but I most of all I had higher expectations of it. We will see what my studying the criticism does to my opinion.
2019: read it again as I am writing a review of a new edition of it, and enjoyed it more than the first time, because I now know more of the book, the author, the period, etc. It’s still not my favourite Edgeworth novel, but I definitely appreciated it much more!
2019: read it again as I am writing a review of a new edition of it, and enjoyed it more than the first time, because I now know more of the book, the author, the period, etc. It’s still not my favourite Edgeworth novel, but I definitely appreciated it much more!