Offers a selection of five short fictions by Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth - the best-known writers of the moral tale - prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic...

Offers a selection of five short fictions by Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth - the best-known writers of the moral tale - prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period.