This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson’s seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four ‘national tales’. Owenson combined conventional…

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This historical novel tells the story of Florence Macarthy, a young Catholic woman in Ireland during the early seventeenth century. The novel explores the tensions between Catholic and Protestant communities…