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Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale: by Sydney Owenson
Author(s): Jenny McAuley (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 May 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 512 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848931689
- ISBN-13: 9781848931688
Book Description
This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson’s seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four ‘national tales’. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the Act of Union in 1800.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘this edition is admirably thorough …Thanks to McAuley and Pickering & Chatto, Owenson’s talents are still available to us.’ Review 19
