...the world. "Forthis,hands, lips, and eyes were put to school, " And each instructed feature had it's rule." Mrs. Stanhope did not find Belinda such a docile...to decline, she could not go out with her as much as she wished. After manoeuvring with more than her usual art, she succeeded in fastening Belinda upon...

...the following letter from her aunt Stanhope. chiefly in the country; she had early been inspii'etl with a taste for domestic pleasures; she was fond...however, was yet to be developed by circumstances. ' Crescent, Bath, ' AFTER searching every place I could think of, Anne found your bracelet in your...

...world. " For this, hands, lips, and eyes were put to school, " And each instructed feature had it's rule." Mrs. Stanhope did not find Belinda such a docile...circumstances. Mrs. Stanhope lived at Bath, where she had opportunites of showing her niece off, as she thought, to advantage ; but as her health began to decline,...

...did not find Belinda such a docile pupil as her ether nieces, for she had been educated VOL. II. B chiefly in the country ; she had early been inspired...to decline, she could not go out with her as much as she wished. After manffiuvring with more than her usual art, she succeeded in fastening Belinda...

...228 XIV. The Exhibition 246 XV. Jealousy 277 XVI. Domestic Happiness 297 XVII. Rights of Woman 317 BELINDA. CHAPTER I. CHARACTERS. MRS. STANHOPE, a well-bred...to decline, she could not go out with her as much as she wished. After manoeuvring with more than her usual art, she succeeded in fastening Belinda upon...

...each instructed feature had Its rule." Mrs. Stanhope did not find Belinda such a docile pupil as%er other nieces, for she had been educated chiefly in...however, was yet to be developed by circumstances. Miss Portman's accomplishments and vivacity as to invite her to spend the winter with her in London....

...with a look of some displeasure . . . 466 ' Clarence, you have a right to Belinda's hand ' . . 484 XIX CHAPTER I CHARACTERS MRS. STANHOPE, a well-bred woman,...to decline, she could not go out with her as much as she wished. After manoeuvring with more than her usual art, she succeeded in fastening Belinda upon...

...gestures toward Belinda's resistance to being inscribed in a narrative concluding in her establishment: "Mrs. Stanhope did not find Belinda such a docile...disposed to conduct herself with prudence and integrity" (1). Edgeworth's beginning forecasts a generational conflict, and thereafter Belinda resists her aunt's...

...Stanhope, the 'catchmatch-maker', Edgeworth's account of that education is sketchy, to say the least: 'she had been educated chiefly in the country; she...disposed to conduct herself with prudence and integrity'. 15 In a novel which places such emphasis on the activity of education, from the idealized Percival...

...bargain, who views with faultseeking eyes the property he means to cheapen" (34). 54. Edgeworth writes, "Mrs. Stanhope did not find Belinda such a docile...however, was yet to be developed by circumstances" (7). 55. For all her self-reproach, Belinda still seems justified in recoiling from many of the domestic...