A review by lawrenceevalyn
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth

5.0

Oh man. This was SO GOOD. So good!!! I can't believe I'd been putting it off for so long because I thought it was going to be a slog -- I should have trusted Jane Austen. I really enjoyed all the characters here, and the delicate balance of narrative suspense and realism. Belinda won my heart in a very similar way to Evelina, but without the distracting subplot. I wish I had friends to gossip about the ending with!

EDIT: I've just discovered that the librivox recording is based off of the 1810 edition of the text, in which Edgeworth edited out an interracial marriage. Now I need to read the 1801 to compare!