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There is a telling moment in Maria Edgeworth’s story ‘The India Cabinet’.1 In customary pursuit of a moral lesson — in this instance the fatigue that results from a surfeit of pleasure — Miss Edgeworth causes her delightful heroine Rosamond to remark, ‘and yet, I know that listening to the most entertaining things, for a very long time together, does tire at last. I recollect being once tired of hearing Godfrey read the fairy Paribanon [sic] in the Arabian Tales; and yet that, all the time, entertained me excessively.’
You have made me as happy as a child with The Arabian Nights
(W. M. Thackeray in a letter to Tennyson, thanking him for a copy of The Idylls of the King)
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Maria Edgeworth, ‘The India Cabinet’, in Continuation of Early Lessons r (R. Hunter, 1816) 227–8.
M. J. P. Weedon, ‘Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery’, Library (5th ser.), iv, no. 1 (June 1949) 25–63.
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Alderson, B. (1988). Scheherazade in the Nursery. In: Caracciolo, P.L. (eds) The Arabian Nights in English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19620-3_2
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