The Self-Condemned

{{Short description|1836 novel}}

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| author = Thomas Gaspey

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| language = English

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| genre = Historical

| publisher =Richard Bentley

| release_date = 1836

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The Self-Condemned is an 1836 historical novel by the British writer Thomas Gaspey, published in three volumes by Richard Bentley in London.Kelly p.XLIX Set in Elizabethan Ireland, it was the first novel Gaspey had published since George Godfrey in 1828 due to his work on The Sunday Times.The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature p.495 In a preface he acknowledged the assistance of the Irish antiquarian Thomas Crofton Croker for the historical background. The American edition was released by Harper and Brothers in New York. The principle characters are Edmund Nagle an Irish chieftain and his sister Grace, at the time of the Munster Plantation and Desmond Rebellion.