VERY INTERESTING! This reminds me of Godwin's work, Political Justice. Godwin was a close friend of Edgeworth, so I wonder whether he commented on this. Do you know?
Could be. Volume XI, Suffusions, Poems for Mary Wollstonecraft, of the Romantic Series, my 14-volume collection of poems for and about the Romantic Poets, I believe, mentions Edgeworth because Mary was highly jealous of her relationship with Godwin. Godwin had a circle of women around him; Edgeworth, Mary Darby Robinson, and others were part of it.
Times 12, I could reread War & Peace, which I read for the first time only last year. Nabokov said there was no reading, only rereading, and that book begs for it, demands even, I’d say, lifespan allowing. I’ll probably reread some other Tolstoys first.
My lifespan has tapered to Only Things I Love.
A category that might constitute a good Common Reader topic sometime. Hopefully would be very idiosyncratic.
Interesting, does Maria Edgeworth happen to be related to the economist who developed the Edgeworth box model of trade taught in introductory economics classes today?
Thady’s disingenuous narrator schtick wears out quickly …
VERY INTERESTING! This reminds me of Godwin's work, Political Justice. Godwin was a close friend of Edgeworth, so I wonder whether he commented on this. Do you know?
oh I don’t know, too long since I read Godwin, maybe it will be discussed in the book?
Could be. Volume XI, Suffusions, Poems for Mary Wollstonecraft, of the Romantic Series, my 14-volume collection of poems for and about the Romantic Poets, I believe, mentions Edgeworth because Mary was highly jealous of her relationship with Godwin. Godwin had a circle of women around him; Edgeworth, Mary Darby Robinson, and others were part of it.
I would be entirely loathe to red a didactic volume encased in a veneer of novel.
I felt that way about Atlas Shrugged, which I know Henry loved!
I could read The Fountainhead, which at least had two great lines:
“What do you think about me, Mr. Roark?
I never do.”
Edgeworth is a very early exponent of the regional novel in English and Castle Rackrent is only about 100 pages long.
Times 12, I could reread War & Peace, which I read for the first time only last year. Nabokov said there was no reading, only rereading, and that book begs for it, demands even, I’d say, lifespan allowing. I’ll probably reread some other Tolstoys first.
My lifespan has tapered to Only Things I Love.
A category that might constitute a good Common Reader topic sometime. Hopefully would be very idiosyncratic.
I also found Castle Rackrent mildly disappointing. But many of my friends love it.
Yeah, I get it, I just don’t enjoy it
Interesting, does Maria Edgeworth happen to be related to the economist who developed the Edgeworth box model of trade taught in introductory economics classes today?
She is. Wikipedia has articles about them.
interesting question! maybe the book covers this?