Belmont Castle
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Belmont Castle

or Suffering Sensibility

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Belmont Castle

or Suffering Sensibility

About this book

Among the possessions seized from Theobald Wolfe Tone upon his arrest in 1798 were two copies of Belmont Castle, the epistolary novel he wrote and published with his friends Richard Jebb and John Radcliffe in 1790. Much more than a mere youthful literary squib, Belmont Castle is an elaborate roman à clef, satirizing the lives of several prominent figures of the Anglo-Irish establishment and redressing a painful love affair from Tone's past. Written in a style that mocks the popular sentimental fiction of the period, Belmont Castle gives us a xenophobic Lord Charlemont, a foppish Sir Thomas Goold, a social-climbing William 'Index' Ball and 'Humanity' Dick Martin as one of several villains in a frothy tale of love and intrigue, abductions and duels, dances and dandies, blushing belles and charging rams. In a tour de force of scholarly recovery, Editor Marion Deane's introduction and annotations guide us through a labyrinth of truth, half-truth and innuendo. Deane shows that Tone composed more than half of the novel, and that the love affairs at the centre of the plot are based on Tone's own infatuation with Lady Elizabeth Vesey, and on Lady Vesey's subsequent celebrated adultery and elopement with a Mr Petrie. Belmont Castle is at once an amusing mock-Gothic novel and a fascinating historical document, shedding new light on the lives of the great and the good of Anglo-Irish Dublin in the period of 'Grattan's parliament', and on Tone himself in the years before he embraced revolutionary politics.

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Information

Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781901866063
eBook ISBN
9781843514961
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Original title page
  5. Dedication
  6. The Editor
  7. Letter I: Miss Juliana Blandford to Lady Georgiana Shirley
  8. Letter II: Lord Mortimer to John Evelyn, Esq.
  9. Letter III: Hon. Charles Fitzroy Scudamore to Lieut. Col. Neville
  10. Letter IV: Lady Fillamar to the Countess of B.
  11. Letter V: Miss Juliana Blandford to Lady Georgiana Shirley
  12. Letter VI: Hon. H.F. Scudamore to Colonel Neville
  13. Letter VII: Sir James Dashton to Col. Watworth
  14. Letter VIII: Montague Beville, Esq. to John Evelyn, Esq.
  15. Letter IX: Col. Neville to Fitzroy Scudamore, Esq.
  16. Letter X: Miss Juliana Blandford to Lady Georgiana Shirley
  17. Letter XI: Lady Georgiana Shirley to Miss Juliana Blandford
  18. Letter XII: Hon. H.F. Scudamore to Col.Neville
  19. Letter XIII: Lady Georgiana Shirley to Miss Juliana Blandford
  20. Letter XIV: Montague Beville, Esq. to John Evelyn, Esq.
  21. Letter XV: Lady Georgiana Shirley to Miss Juliana Blandford
  22. Letter XVI: Montague Beville, Esq. to John Evelyn, Esq.
  23. Letter XVII: Hon. H.F. Scudamore to Col. Neville
  24. Letter XVIII: Lady Georgiana Shirley to Miss Juliana Blandford
  25. Letter XIX: Hon. H.F. Scudamore to Col. Neville
  26. Letter XX: Lady Georgiana Shirley to Miss Juliana Blandford
  27. Letter XXI: Lord Mortimer to John Evelyn, Esq.
  28. Letter XXII: Miss Juliana Blandford to Lady Georgiana Shirley
  29. Letter XXIII: Hon. H.F. Scudamore to Col. Neville
  30. Letter XXIV: Lady Georgiana Shirley to Miss Juliana Blandford
  31. Letter XXV: Montague Beville, Esq. to John Evelyn Esq.
  32. Letter XXVI: Colonel Neville to Fitzroy Scudamore, Esq.
  33. Letter XXVII: Lady Myrtilla Middleton to Lord Clairville
  34. Letter XXVIII: Montague Beville, Esq. to John Evelyn Esq.
  35. Letter XXIX: Lord Clairville to Lady Middleton
  36. Letter XXX: Hon. H.F. Scudamore to Col. Neville
  37. Letter XXXI: Miss Juliana Blandford to Lady Georgiana Shirley
  38. Letter XXXII: Lady Myrtilla Middleton to Lord Clairville
  39. Letter XXXIII: Lord Mortimer to John Evelyn Esq.
  40. Letter XXXIV: Montague Beville, Esq. to John Evelyn Esq.
  41. Letter XXXV: Lord Mortimer to John Evelyn Esq.
  42. Bibliography
  43. Copyright