Table of Contents

Introduction: A story to tell, Julie Nash; West Indian Obeah and English 'Obee': race, femininity, and questions of colonial consolidation in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda, Alison Harvey; Maria and Rachel: transatlantic identities and the epistolary assimilation of difference, Eve Tavor Bannet; Not the angel in the house: intersections of the public and private in Maria Edgeworth's Moral Tales and Practical Education, Mona Narain; Maria Edgeworth and the 'true use of books' for eighteenth-century girls, Kathleen B. Grathwol; Finding her own voice or 'being on her own bottom': a community of women in Maria Edgeworth's Helen, Frances R. Botkin; 'I thought I never set my eyes on a finer figure of a man': Maria Edgeworth scrutinizes masculinity in Castle Rackrent, Ennui, and The Absentee, Irene Basey Beesemyer; Revising stereotypes of nationality and gender: why Maria Edgeworth did not write Castle Belinda, Joanne Cordon; 'Standing in distress between tragedy and comedy': servants in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda, Julie Nash; Justice, citizenship, and the question of feminine subjectivity: reading The Absentee as a historical novel, Kara M. Ryan; Maria Edgeworth and the Irish 'thin places', Laura Dabundo; Index.

About the Author

Julie Nash is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.