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Works, righteousness, philanthropy, and the market in the novels of Charlotte Riddell
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The literature of the fin de siècle coexisted with that of older writers, who show how earlier literary tropes and cultural debates continued to influence the later period. The novels of Charlotte Riddell indicate that long-standing debates about the possibility of regenerating the Irish land system survived into the era of the Land War and the New Woman. Her references to a wide range of nineteenth-century Irish writers and her reimagining of contemporary events such as the murder of Lord Leitrim (1878) and the land agitation in Donegal reflect not only her own inability to turn her literary success into financial security but also a perceptible ambivalence on her part. This chapter focuses in particular on Riddell’s novels Berna Boyle (1884), The Earl’s Promise (1873) and The Nun’s Curse (1888) by showing how her late Victorian self-questioning reflects themes of earlier eras’ hopes for political economy or aristocratic regeneration.

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Irish women’s writing, 1878–1922

Advancing the cause of liberty

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