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Subject(s)

• Young women—England—London—Fiction [Browse]
• Courtship—England—London—Fiction [Browse]

Editor

• Bree, Linda [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

Belinda (1801) tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking. Braving the perils of the marriage market, Belinda learns to think for herself as the examples of her friends prove singularly unreliable.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Belinda
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Edgeworth the Published Writer
• Writing and Rewriting Belinda
• Lady Delacour and Others
• Mistress of the Revels
• A Taste for Literature
• Moral Tale, Novel, and Romance
• Fact, Fiction, and Romance
• Lady Delacour's World
• Style and Substance
• Reading Belinda
• NOTE ON THE TEXT
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Biography
• Criticism
• A CHRONOLOGY OF MARIA EDGEWORTH
• BELINDA
• ADVERTISEMENT
• VOLUME ONE
• CHAPTER I: CHARACTERS
• CHAPTER II: MASKS
• CHAPTER III: LADY DELACOUR'S HISTORY
• CHAPTER IV: LADY DELACOUR'S HISTORY CONTINUED
• CHAPTER V: BIRTHDAY DRESSES
• CHAPTER VI: WAYS AND MEANS
• CHAPTER VII: THE SERPENTINE RIVER*
• CHAPTER VIII: A FAMILY PARTY
• CHAPTER IX: ADVICE
• CHAPTER X: THE MYSTERIOUS BOUDOIR
• CHAPTER XI: DIFFICULTIES
• CHAPTER XII: THE MACAW
• VOLUME TWO
• CHAPTER XIII: SORTES VIRGILIANÆ*
• CHAPTER XIV: THE EXHIBITION
• CHAPTER XV: JEALOUSY
• CHAPTER XVI: DOMESTIC HAPPINESS*
• CHAPTER XVII: RIGHTS OF WOMAN*
• CHAPTER XVIII: A DECLARATION
• CHAPTER XIX: A WEDDING
• CHAPTER XX: RECONCILIATION
• CHAPTER XXI: HELENA
• CHAPTER XXII: A SPECTRE
• CHAPTER XXIII: THE CHAPLAIN
• VOLUME THREE
• CHAPTER XXIV: PEU A PEU*
• CHAPTER XXV: LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG*
• CHAPTER XXVI: VIRGINIA
• CHAPTER XXVII: A DISCOVERY
• CHAPTER XXVIII: E O
• CHAPTER XXIX: A JEW
• CHAPTER XXX: NEWS
• CHAPTER XXXI: THE DENOUEMENT*
• APPENDIX 1: 'ORIGINAL SKETCH' FOR BELINDA
• APPENDIX 2: SIGNIFICANT TEXTUAL REVISIONS
• EXPLANATORY NOTES.

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ISBN

• 0-19-150469-6
• 0-19-150468-8
• 0-19-192374-5

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