The Education of the Heart: The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth

by Edgar E. MacDonald

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 Harrington 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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807897175
• ISBN13: 9780807897171
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"