Belinda (Edgeworth novel)

Belinda (Edgeworth novel)

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author = Maria Edgeworth
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Joseph Johnson
pub_date = 1801
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Belinda" is an 1801 novel by the Irish writer Maria Edgeworth. [cite web | title="Belinda" | last=Edgeworth | first=Maria | work=upenn.edu | url=http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edgeworth/belinda/belinda.html | date= | accessdate=2007-12-07 ] It was first published in three volumes by Joseph Johnson of London in 1801, and was later reprinted by Pandora Press in 1986. The novel was Edgeworth's second published, and was considered controversial in its day for its depiction of an interracial marriage. [cite web | title="Conjugal love and the enlightenment subject: The colonial context of non-identity in Maria Edgeworth's "Belinda" | last=McCann | first=Andrew | work=findarticles.com | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3643/is_199610/ai_n8752837 | date=Autumn 1996 | accessdate=2007-12-07 ] In its first editions, Juba, an African servant on a plantation in Jamaica, marries an English farmer's daughter. But the third edition of the book, published in 1810, omits the character Juba, and has the heroine betrothed to one James Jackson. It has been argued that this change came at the insistence of Edgeworth's father, rather than the author herself, because her father edited several of her works. Fact|date=December 2007

Literary significance and reception

Literary critic George Saintsbury argued that Jane Austen's naturalistic female characters owed a debt to this society novel's spirited heroine. [cite web | title=Jane Austin article | last= | first= | work=nndb.com | url=http://www.nndb.com/people/137/000086876/ | date= | accessdate=2007-12-07 ] "Belinda" was itself in the tradition of society novels by writers such as Frances Sheridan and Frances Burney, who also charted the travails of bright young women in search of a good marriage. Aristocrat Lady Delacour in "Belinda" has been compared to Miss Milner in Elizabeth Inchbald’s "A Simple Story" (1791). [cite web | title="Belinda" at the Literary Encyclopedia | last= | first= | work=litencyc.com | url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6385 | date= | accessdate=2007-12-07 ]

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*gutenberg|no=9455|name=Belinda
* [http://site.girlebooks.com/xs.php?page=ebooks_detail&siteid=223&lang=en&table=user_girlebooks&idx=0&iddetail=277 "Belinda" free downloads in PDF, PDB and LIT formats]


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