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100 1  Edgeworth, Maria, |d1768-1849, |eauthor.
245 10 Belinda / |cMaria Edgeworth and edited with an introduction and notes by Linda Bree.
250    Second edition.
264  1 Oxford, England : |bOxford University Press, |c[2020]
264  4  |c©2020
300    1 online resource (561 pages)
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490 1  Oxford world's classics
520    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.
505 0  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 -- CONTENTS -- 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.
588    Description based on print version record.
504    Includes bibliographical references.
650  0 Young women |zEngland |zLondon |vFiction.
650  0 Courtship |zEngland |zLondon |vFiction.
776     |z0-19-968213-5
700 1  Bree, Linda, |eeditor.
830  0 Oxford world's classics.
906    BOOK