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    Love and Law: 'Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood''
    Love and Law: 'Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood''
    Love and Law: 'Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood''
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    Love and Law: 'Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood''

    By Maria Edgeworth

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    Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire on January 1st 1768. Her early years were with her mother's family in England. Sadly, her mother died when Maria was five.

    Maria was educated at Mrs Lattafière's school in Derby in 1775. There she studied dancing, French and other subjects. Maria transferred to Mrs Devis's school in Upper Wimpole Street, London. Her father began to focus more attention on Maria in 1781 when she nearly lost her sight to an eye infection.

    She returned home to Ireland at 14 and took charge of her younger siblings. She herself was home-tutored by her father in Irish economics and politics, science, literature and law. Despite her youth literature was in her blood. Maria also became her father's assistant in managing the family’s large Edgeworthstown estate.

    Maria first published 1795 with ‘Letters for Literary Ladies’. That same year ‘An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification’, written for a female audience, advised women on how to obtain better rights in general and specifically from their husbands.

    ‘Practical Education’ (1798) is a progressive work on education. Maria’s ambition was to create an independent thinker who understands the consequences of his or her actions.

    Her first novel, ‘Castle Rackrent’ was published anonymously in 1800 without her father's knowledge. It was an immediate success and firmly established Maria’s appeal to the public.

    Her father married four times and the last of these to Frances, a year younger and a confidante of Maria, who pushed them to travel more widely: London, Britain and Europe were all now visited.

    The second series of ‘Tales of Fashionable Life’ (1812) did so well that she was now the most commercially successful novelist of her age.

    She particularly worked hard to improve the living standards of the poor in Edgeworthstown and to provide schools for the local children of all and any denomination.

    After a visit to see her relations Maria had severe chest pains and died suddenly of a heart attack in Edgeworthstown on 22nd May 1849. She was 81.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStage Door
    Release dateJul 19, 2019
    ISBN9781787806870
    Love and Law: 'Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood''
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    Maria Edgeworth

    Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children’s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women’s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.

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      Love and Law - Maria Edgeworth

      Love and Law by Maria Edgeworth

      A DRAMA. IN THREE ACTS.

      Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire on January 1st 1768. Her early years were with her mother's family in England. Sadly, her mother died when Maria was five.

      Maria was educated at Mrs Lattafière's school in Derby in 1775. There she studied dancing, French and other subjects.  Maria transferred to Mrs Devis's school in Upper Wimpole Street, London. Her father began to focus more attention on Maria in 1781 when she nearly lost her sight to an eye infection.

      She returned home to Ireland at 14 and took charge of her younger siblings. She herself was home-tutored by her father in Irish economics and politics, science, literature and law. Despite her youth literature was in her blood.  Maria also became her father's assistant in managing the family’s large Edgeworthstown estate.

      Maria first published 1795 with ‘Letters for Literary Ladies’. That same year ‘An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification’, written for a female audience, advised women on how to obtain better rights in general and specifically from their husbands.

      ‘Practical Education’ (1798) is a progressive work on education. Maria’s ambition was to create an independent thinker who understands the consequences of his or her actions.

      Her first novel, ‘Castle Rackrent’ was published anonymously in 1800 without her father's knowledge. It was an immediate success and firmly established Maria’s appeal to the public.

      Her father married four times and the last of these to Frances, a year younger and a confidante of Maria, who pushed them to travel more widely: London, Britain and Europe were all now visited.

      The second series of ‘Tales of Fashionable Life’ (1812) did so well that she was now the most commercially successful novelist of her age.

      She particularly worked hard to improve the living standards of the poor in Edgeworthstown and to provide schools for the local children of all and any denomination.

      After a visit to see her relations Maria had severe chest pains and died suddenly of a heart attack in Edgeworthstown on 22nd May 1849. She was 81.

      Index of Contents

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      LOVE AND LAW

      ACT I

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      SCENE IV

      SCENE V

      ACT II

      SCENE I

      SCENE II

      SCENE III

      ACT III

      SCENE I

      MARIA EDGEWORTH – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      MARIA EDGEWORTH – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      MEN

      MR CARVER, of Bob’s Fort. A Justice of the Peace in Ireland.

      OLD MATTHEW McBRIDE.  A rich Farmer.

      PHILIP McBRIDE. His Son.

      RANDAL ROONEY. Son of the Widow Catherine Rooney and a Lover of Honor McBride.

      MR GERALD O’BLANEY. A Distiller

      PATRICK COXE. Clerk to Gerald O’Blaney.

      WOMEN

      MRS CARVER.  Wife of Mr. Carver.

      MISS BLOOMSBURY.  A fine London Waiting-maid of Mrs. Carver’s.

      MRS CATHERINE ROONEY, commonly called CATTY ROONEY.  A Widow—Mother of Randal Rooney.

      HONOR McBRIDE.  Daughter of Matthew McBride, and Sister of Philip McBride.

      A Justice’s Clerk—a Constable—Witnesses—and two Footmen.

      LOVE AND LAW

      ACT I

      SCENE I

      A Cottage.—A Table—Breakfast.

      HONOR McBRIDE, alone.

      HONOR

      Phil!—

      [Calls]

      —Phil, dear! come out.

      PHIL [Answers from within]

      Wait till I draw on my boots!

      HONOR

      Oh, I may give it up: he’s full of his new boots—and singing, see!

      [Enter PHIL McBRIDE, dressed in the height of the Irish buck-farmer fashion, singing,

      "Oh the boy of Ball’navogue!

      Oh the dasher! oh the rogue!

      He’s the thing! and he’s the pride

      Of town and country, Phil McBride—

      All the talk of shoe and brogue!

      Oh the boy of Ball’navogue!"

      There’s a song to the praise and glory of your—of your brother, Honor! And who made it, do you think, girl?

      HONOR

      Miss Caroline Flaherty, no doubt. But, dear Phil, I’ve a favour to ask of you.

      PHIL

      And welcome! What? But first, see! isn’t there an elegant pair of boots, that fits a leg like wax?—There’s what’ll plase Car’line Flaherty, I’ll engage. But what ails you, Honor?—you look as if your own heart was like to break. Are not you for the fair to-day?—and why not?

      HONOR

      Oh! rasons.

      [Aside]

      Now I can’t speak.

      PHIL

      Speak on, for I’m dumb and all ear—speak up, dear—no fear of the father’s coming out, for he’s leaving his bird (i.e. beard) in the bason, and that’s a work of time with him.—Tell all to your own Phil.

      HONOR

      Why then I won’t go to the fair—because—better keep myself to myself, out of the way of meeting them that mightn’t be too plasing to my father.

      PHIL

      And might be too plasing to somebody else—Honor McBride.

      HONOR

      Oh, Phil, dear! But only promise me, brother, dearest, if you would this day meet any of the Rooneys—

      PHIL

      That means Randal Rooney.

      HONOR

      No, it was his mother Catty was in my head.

      PHIL

      A bitterer scould never was!—nor a bigger lawyer in petticoats, which is an abomination.

      HONOR

      ‘Tis not pritty, I grant; but her heart’s good, if her temper would give it fair play. But will you promise me, Phil, whatever she says—you won’t let her provoke you this day.

      PHIL

      How in the name of wonder will I hinder her to give me provocation? and when the spirit of the McBrides is up—

      HONOR

      But don’t lift a hand.

      PHIL

      Against a woman?—no fear—not a finger against a woman.

      HONOR

      But I say not against any Rooney, man or woman. Oh, Phil! dear, don’t let there be any fighting betwixt the McBride and Rooney factions.

      PHIL

      And how could I hinder if I would? The boys will be having a row, especially when they get the spirits—and all the better.

      HONOR

      To be drinking! Oh! Phil, the mischief that drinking does!

      PHIL

      Mischief! Quite and clane the contrary—when the shillelah’s up, the pike’s down. ‘Tis when there’d be no fights at fairs, and all sober, then there’s rason to dread mischief. No man, Honor, dare be letting the whiskey into his head, was there any mischief in his heart.

      HONOR

      Well, Phil, you’ve made it out now cliverly. So there’s most danger of mischief when men’s sober—is that it?

      PHIL

      Irishmen?—ay; for sobriety is not the nat’ral state of the craturs; and what’s not nat’ral is hypocritical, and a hypocrite is, and was, and ever will be my contempt.

      HONOR

      And mine too. But—

      PHIL

      But here’s my hand for you, Honor.

      They call me a beau and a buck, a slasher and dasher, and flourishing Phil.

      All that

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