Quotes from Maria Edgeworth's books, and about them
Castle Rackrent on The Sorrows of Young Werther: “What is it you’re reading there? Did you hear me asking you, my dear?’ ‘THE SORROWS OF WERTHER,’ replies my lady, as well as I could hear.”
Northanger Abbey on Belinda: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on Belinda: “Sir Walter shewed Arabella the novels in the bookcase, and recommended Mrs Edgeworth's Belinda in particular as being likely to amuse her.”
Little Men on Edgeworth's Tales: “Demi was never tired of reading and explaining his favorite books, and many a pleasant hour did they spend in the old willow, revelling over "Robinson Crusoe," "Arabian Nights," "Edgeworth's Tales," and the other dear immortal stories that will delight children for centuries to come.”
Little Men on Harry and Lucy: “But, 'Harry and Lucy,' and 'Frank,' are not fairy books, and they are all full of barometers, and bricks, and shoeing horses, and useful things, and I'm fond of them; ain't I, Daisy?"”
Cranford on Old Poz: “…of a third), “better than that strange old book, with the queer name, poor Captain Brown was killed for reading—that book by Mr Boz, you know—‘Old Poz’; when I was a girl—but that’s a long time ago—I acted Lucy in ‘Old Poz.’””
Melmoth the Wanderer on The Absentee: “There was the salted salmon, (a luxury unknown even in London. _Vide_ Miss Edgeworth's Tales, "The Absentee").”