Maria Edgeworth won the admiration of contemporaries Jane Austen and Walter Scott and later writers such as Thackeray. In BELINDA (1801) she tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking, as her heroine Belinda braves the perils of the marriage market and...
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Maria Edgeworth won the admiration of contemporaries Jane Austen and Walter Scott and later writers such as Thackeray. In BELINDA (1801) she tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking, as her heroine Belinda braves the perils of the marriage market and learns to think for herself.
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