Belinda

''It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.''Maria Edgeworth''s 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life among the English aristocracy and gentry. The heroine of the title, only too conscious of being ''advertised'' on the marriage market, grows in mo...