Robin Runia is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana, USA. She has published numerous articles and chapters exploring gender and race in the literature of the long eighteenth century.

• 1 Introduction: Edgeworth and Abolition.- 2 Upstaging Abolition: Enlightened Hypocrisy in Whim for Whim.- 3 “The Appearance of Virtue”—Reading Abolition in Belinda.- 4 “The Good Aunt”: An Education in Abolition.- 5 Parodic Intervention in “The Grateful Negro”.- 6 Conclusion: Erasing Abolition in “The Two Guardians” and Harry and Lucy Concluded.

Robin Runia is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana, USA. She has published numerous articles and chapters exploring gender and race in the literature of the long eighteenth century.

• 1 Introduction: Edgeworth and Abolition.- 2 Upstaging Abolition: Enlightened Hypocrisy in Whim for Whim.- 3 “The Appearance of Virtue”—Reading Abolition in Belinda.- 4 “The Good Aunt”: An Education in Abolition.- 5 Parodic Intervention in “The Grateful Negro”.- 6 Conclusion: Erasing Abolition in “The Two Guardians” and Harry and Lucy Concluded.

Robin Runia is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana, USA. She has published numerous articles and chapters exploring gender and race in the literature of the long eighteenth century.

• 1 Introduction: Edgeworth and Abolition.- 2 Upstaging Abolition: Enlightened Hypocrisy in Whim for Whim.- 3 “The Appearance of Virtue”—Reading Abolition in Belinda.- 4 “The Good Aunt”: An Education in Abolition.- 5 Parodic Intervention in “The Grateful Negro”.- 6 Conclusion: Erasing Abolition in “The Two Guardians” and Harry and Lucy Concluded.