THE WILD IRISH GIRL – Romance, by Sidney Owenson

You can read this novel, is an partly epistolary novel written by Irish novelist Sydney Owenson. Is a romance set in Ireland, pages where you can find wild landscapes and ruins. The story involves a young Englishman, a kind of prodigal son who is banished to his aristocratic father’s Irish estates. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns the history, culture, and language of a country he had once scorned. This Victorian romance, The Wild Irish girl, it was penned in 1806, after the Act of Union. Reading you can see that Horatio visits the west Connaught coast, discovering not only physical landscapes but a beautiful princess. The novel ends its a return to the epistolary mode, where you can find – page after page – the understated courtship (sweet in its subtlety), between Horatio and Glorvina. http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Irish-Girl-National-Classics/dp/0199552495