Belinda (Annotated)

Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801) is a sophisticated novel of manners that examines female education, courtship, marriage, and moral judgment within the fashionable society of late eighteenth-century Britain. Written in lucid, ironic, and socially observant prose, it revises the sentimental and Gothic conventions popular in its period by emphasizing rational conduct, ethical self-command, and pract...