With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scotts Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innovative, and wonderfully entertaining, the novel changes the focus of the conflict in Ireland from religion to class, and boldly predicts the rise of the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie.
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He valued a guinea as little as any man: money to him was no more than dirt, and his gentleman and groom, and all belonging to him, the same;
Out of forty-nine suits which he had, he never lost one but seventeen
which was so great a gain to Sir Murtagh, that he did not like to hear me talk of repairing fences.
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