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The Education of the Heart

The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth

Edgar E. MacDonald

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/2012
Pages: 364
Subject: Biography and Autobiography | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469606095

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In 1815 a young North Carolina schoolteacher who was Jewish wrote to the celebrated Maria Edgeworth to ask why British novelists wrote in such a prejudiced manner about Jews. Maria was so moved by the letter that she set to work on a novel to make amends, and <3>Harrington<1> was published in 1817. The literary exchange that resulted grew into a friendship that lasted until Rachel's death in 1838, and the families continued to correspond until 1942.

Originally published in 1977.

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