South Dakota State University Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange English Faculty Publications Department of English Spring 2013 Juba’s “Black Face” / Lady Delacour’s “Mask”: Plotting Domesticity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda Sharon Smith South Dakota State University,
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[email protected]. Juba’s “Black Face” / Lady Delacour’s “Mask”: Plotting Domesticity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda Sharon Smith South Dakota State University “Well, Lucy,” said lady Anne, “have you overcome your fear of poor Juba’s black face?” The girl reddened, smiled, and looked at her grandmother, who answered for her in an arch tone, “O, yes, my lady! We are not afraid of Juba’s black face now. [T]he eyes are used to a face after a time, and then it’s nothing.”1 In the first edition of Maria Edgeworth’sBelinda , published in 1801, Juba, an African slave, marries Lucy, an English farm girl.