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'The thing goes on then? and what day is the marriage to take place?' said lady Boucher.
'On Monday—or Tuesday—or Wednesday—or Thursday—or Friday—or Saturday—or Sunday, I believe,' replied Mrs. Delacour.

Why has so much happened in 50 pages wth someone lost a finger someone almost shot himself there's a whole chapter titled "A Jew" omg

Me when I'm in a run on sentence contest and my opponent is Maria Edgeworth

"Young gentlemen of fortune will, if it be only for fashion's sake, have such things as kept mistresses (begging pardon for mentioning such trash)."

and of course Belinda's bar: "I must be allowed to repeat, that there is a great deal of difference between loving and being in love." mhmm mhmm

'I hate slavery! Vive la liberté!' 🙌

Other pros:
- Interracial marriage in 1801??!?!?!? 🤯

Cons:
- Maria wrote Juba as a caricature of West Indian culture (Jamaican?) and I wish she hadn't removed the interracial marriage in later editions :(
- Clarence Hervey

Also there's so many em dashes... do y'all think Chat GPT wrote Belinda??

"P.S. If you return directly to lady Delacour's and marry sir Philip Baddely, I will forgive the past."

Oh yeah fs Selina let me do that rq

Helena 😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔

I hate Clarence

I just read Lady Delacour's history for 30 pages straight. Bring back info-dumping.

Reading this after two brutal days of orientation and a seminar is so...strange

"But we seem to force these competitions only upon those who don't fit the "default" of the Western canon: white women novelists, LGBTQ+ writers, authors of colour."

Oh yeah that makes sense yeah let's compare white women and LGBTQ+ writers to people who were enslaved and colonized at the time... Y'all ever heard of Oscar Wilde?