The Absentee: A Tale. By Miss Edgeworth.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1088
Year: 1812
Entry: [Edgeworth, Maria]. The Absentee: A Tale. By Miss Edgeworth. New-York: Inskeep & Bradford; Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1812. 2 vols.
Author/Editor: Maria Edgeworth
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: The Absentee: A Tale. By Miss Edgeworth.
Printer/Publisher: Inskeep & Bradford
Language: English
Notes: Mr. Mordicai (not Mordecai), a well-known Jewish coachmaker in London, is a contemptible moneylender. "Preface" by R. L. Edgeworth. S & S 25317 (S & S 25318 for an edition, also 1812, published by William Cooper, Washington City). Frequently reissued. Text also appears in vol. 2 of the author’s Tales of Fashionable Life (Philadelphia, etc., 1822-23), forming her Works of Maria Edgeworth, vol. 6. Frequently reissued.