Resultados de "Maria Edgeworth" en Todas las categorias

Siendo solo un niño, Henry Ormond pierde a su madre y su padre lo abandona. Compadeciéndose de él, Ulick O’Shane, un irlandés acomodado, lo adopta y lo cría junto a su hijo Marcus. Ambos jóvenes se meten en muchos líos cuando llegan a la adolescencia pero, tras verse implicados en un tiroteo en el que casi muere un joven, y viendo que la esposa de O’Shane no lo quiere en su casa, Ormond se va a vivir con el primo rico de su tutor, alguien a quien apodan «King Corny».

Después de casar a media docena de sobrinas con caballeros de gran fortuna, la señora Stanhope quiere asegurarle el mejor futuro a la última de ellas, Belinda, y nadie más adecuado para introducirla en la alta sociedad que su amiga lady Delacour, la mujer más frívola e influyente de todo Londres. De su mano, la joven se sumerge en un mundo deslumbrante, en el que brilla con luz propia el encantador Clarence Hervey, aunque las fiestas y los devaneos ocultan secretos y tragedias, y las amistades más deslumbrantes esconden intereses ocultos.

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those whose own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows. But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these women strove to be published, to show themselves as equals. The results more often than not proved that they were.

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackrent tells the story of three generations of an estate. One of the main sources of inspiration for the novel was a chronicle of her own family history called The Black Book of Edgeworthstown, which contain legal struggles of the Edgeworth's similar to those portrayed in the novel.

Published in 1801, Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda is an absorbing novel that mirrors social and domestic life among the English gentry. In her pursuit of a suitable marriage, Belinda encounters an array of characters including the dazzling socialite Lady Delacourt, the feminist Harriet Freke, the wealthy and handsome West Indian Mr Vincent and the impulsive Clarence Hervey.