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2 unusual facts about Castle Rackrent


1800 in Ireland

Maria Edgeworth's first extended work of fiction, the pioneering historical novel with an Irish setting Castle Rackrent, is published anonymously in London.

Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel.



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