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Absentee, The (1812), a novel by Maria Edgeworth first published in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), deals with the ill-effects of landlord absenteeism in Ireland. An Irish landowner, Lord Clonbrony, and his ambitious wife are living in London amid growing debts. Their son, Lord Colambre, fails to persuade them to return to Ireland. He travels back, incognito, to find his father's estate being rackrented. Colambre falls in love with Grace Nugent, of a Gaelic family.

 
 
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The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life.

Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle. Colambre travels incognito to Ireland to see the country that he still considers his home. When he returns to London he assists his father to pay off the debts, on condition that the Clonbrony family return to live in Ireland.

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