Belinda by Maria Edgeworth book discussion

We will discuss Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda, a book Jane Austen enjoyed. In fact, she said to her niece "I have made up my mind to like no novels really but Miss Edgeworth's, yours, and my own," showing how much she admired Edgeworth's work.

In Maria Edgeworth's "Belinda," a young woman, Belinda Portman, is sent by her matchmaker aunt to stay with the fashionable Lady Delacour in London, hoping to find a suitable husband, but she instead learns about the complexities of society and develops her own judgment.

**Be sure to get a copy based on either the first or second editions (before 1810), as significant changes were made to the plot for the third edition due to controversy around interracial marriage in the story.

We will have light snacks, please feel free to bring snacks to share, and drinks in closed containers.

Not and official library system event.