6/5/2023 0 Comments Great house novelNineteenth century novelists in this genre include Somerville and Ross, particularly their Big House at Inver, Charles Lever, William Carleton, particularly his The Squanders of Castle Squander and Lady Morgan. The best-known may well be Maria Edgeworth and her best-known big house novel is undoubtedly Castle Rackrent, published in 1800 and set in 1782. There were several early exponents, mainly though certainly not exclusively women. However, it continued on into the twentieth century, well after the big house had all but ceased to exist, at least as a social phenomenon. The novel, as written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was about the situation that then prevailed. The Big House novel is a peculiarly Irish phenomenon and is based on an Irish reality, namely the big house where the landlord (often English) lived, surrounded by the poor Irish peasants. Home » Movements home page » The Big House novel The Big House novel
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