The Bosom of the Bourgeoisie: Edgeworth's "Belinda"
Jordana Rosenberg
ELH > Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 575-596--Abstract: Recent work in eighteenth-century studies has been notoriously preoccupied by what seem to be striking metaphorical resonances between economic and aesthetic 'spheres of practice,' but, as I argue in my paper, it is the confounding of these analogies that may be most salient. Although Edgeworth's "Belinda" has been frequently read as demystifying aristocratic codes by replacing sharp sociality with good-natured bourgeois instruction, I show that this text imagines the difference between bourgeois and gift economies not as the substitution of humor's instructive mirth for wit's arch conceits, but as a spectacular encounter between the two.

"Lady Delacour's Library: Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and Fashionable Reading"
Heather MacFadyen
Nineteenth-Century Literature > Vol. 48, No. 4 (Mar., 1994), pp. 423-439
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"Commerce and Character in Maria Edgeworth"
Teresa Michals
Nineteenth-Century Literature > Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jun., 1994), pp. 1-20
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"Abroad and at Home": Sexual Ambiguity, Miscegenation, and Colonial Boundaries in Edgeworth's Belinda"
Susan C. Greenfield
PMLA > Vol. 112, No. 2 (Mar., 1997), pp. 214-228
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Maria Edgeworth and the Critics
"Conjugal Love and the Enlightenment Subject: The Colonial Context of Non-Identity in Maria Edgeworth's 'Belinda' "
Andrew McCann
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction > Vol. 30, No. 1 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 56-77
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"'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England"
Lisa Moore
Feminist Studies > Vol. 18, No. 3, The Lesbian Issue (Autumn, 1992), pp. 499-520
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On UI library reserve:

Myers, Mitzi. "My Art Belongs to Daddy? Thomas Day, Maria Edgeworth, and the Pre-Texts of Belinda: Women Writers and Patriarchal Authority." RevisingWomen: Eighteenth-Century 'Women's Fiction' and Social Engagement. Ed. Paula R. Backscheider. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 104-46.

Butler, Marilyn. A Literary Biography. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1972.

Harden, Elizabeth. Maria Edgeworth. Boston: Twayne, 1984.