Belinda is an 1801 novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth. It was first published in three volumes by Joseph Johnson of London.

The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and temptations of London high society belies the challenges it ...

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Admired by her contemporary, Jane Austen, and later by Thackeray and Turgenev, Edgeworth tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought ...

Belinda was handsome, graceful, sprightly, and highly accomplished; her aunt had endeavoured to teach her that a young lady's chief business is to please in ...

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Belinda. By Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849. London: J. Johnson, 1801. Reprinted London: Pandora, 1986. ethnicity, class, gender. CONTENTS. I, CHARACTERS. II, MASKS.

In telling their story Maria Edgeworth gives a vivid picture of life in late eighteenth-century London, skilfully showing both the attractions of leisured society and its darker side, and blending drawing-room comedy with challenging themes involving serious illness, obsession, slavery and interracial marriage.

Belinda is a strange book in a number of ways. Though it offers what was, by 1801, the standard plot of a young woman negotiating society to a good marriage, ...