Maria Edgeworth's The Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock: Symbolic Unification, Women's Education, and the Marriage Plot.

A literary criticism is presented of the play "The Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock" by Maria Edgeworth. The author focuses on the representation of marriage as an allegory for national unification in Ireland and the social status of women. Other topics include the symbolism of union, female education, a...

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Published in:	Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 377 - 391
Main Author:	Chadwick Ross, Slaney
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Winter2014
Subjects:	Rose, Thistle & Shamrock, The (Play) Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849 National unification Women Social conditions of women Marriage in literature Themes in literature Ireland
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