Belinda Summary
Maria Edgeworth

Belinda Summary

Belinda is an English Society Novel written by Maria Edgeworth at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, published in 1801. It tells the story of Belinda Portman, who has been sent by her match-making aunt to stay with Lady Delacour, in the hopes of finding a good husband. Belinda helps Lady Delacour to reform her ways, giving up a life of unrespectable behavior and frivolity for domesticity and happiness...

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