Bøker av Emily Lawless

CONTENTSEarly LifeRichard Lovell EdgeworthFather and DaughterArrival in Ireland - First BooksDisturbed DaysNinety-Eight"Castle Rackrent" - Irish Letters"Belinda" - Visit to ParisMiddle Life"Ennui" - "The Absentee" - "Ormond"Memoir of R. L. Edgeworth - The "Quarterly" - Paris - GenevaFriendship with ScottLater LifeConclusionIndexMaria Edgeworth was born in England but lived most of her life in Ireland and in her stories, she wrote about the Irish, and portrayed them as they really were. While she never became very well known, she had a substantial influence on Scott, Turgenev, and Thackeray.

Lawless was a novelist born in County Kildare in 1845. Despite her great love for Ireland, she eventually became disillusioned with its politics and moved to England. In this work, she intersperses an account of a year spent tending to her garden in Surrey with autobiographical and philosophical ruminations.