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Name: The Absentee
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Author: Maria Edgeworth

In The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth follows a young lord on his journey to Ireland just before his coming of age. He discovers the hardships faced by rural tenants under his father’s distant ownership and confronts the impact of his mother’s attempts to use wealth to secure social standing. The story showcases the tensions within a landed family and the costly consequences of absenteeism on Irish life.

First publish date: 1812

Genre: Humorous Fiction/Comic Satire

Authors: Maria Edgeworth

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