Belinda is a book written by Maria Edgeworth in 1801. The story revolves around a young woman called Belinda, who lives with her aunt, Mrs. Stanhope. Belinda is sent to live with Lady Delacour and Belinda is fascinated by her. The first part of...
Castle Rackrent is unusual among Maria Rackrent's works in that it is one of the few novels she wrote that was not edited by her father. Published in 1800, it is a short novel / novella that tells the story of four heirs to the Rackrent fortune as...
In a way, Maria Edgeworth is to turn of the 19th century British literature what Edith Wharton is to turn of the 20th century American literature. Like Wharton, Edgeworth fashioned a series of novels that traced the declining fortunes of a wealthy...
