"The Purple Jar" is a well-known short story by Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), an Anglo-Irish writer of novels and stories. "The Purple Jar" first was published in The Parent's Assistant (1796) and reappeared in Rosamond (1801). Edgeworth's parable of desire and disappointment is now popularly read as the story of a girl getting her first period or menstruation in general.[1]
The story is about a young girl, Rosamond, who needs new pair of shoes but is attracted to a purple jar which she sees displayed in a shop window. When her mother gives her the choice of spending her money on shoes or the jar, she chooses the purple jar. "You might be disappointed", her mother cautions, adding that Rosamond will not be able to buy new shoes until the next month. When the girl gets home, she discovers that the jar was not purple but clear and filled with a dark liquid. She cries: "I didn't want this black stuff!" Adding to her disappointment, her father refuses to take her out in public because she looks slovenly without good shoes.
In the 21st century, scholars have also read this story as a parable of consumer capitalism.[2][3]
^"A Menstrual Lesson for Girls: Maria Edgeworth's 'The Purple Jar'", Hollis Robbins in Menstruation A Cultural History, edited by Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 ISBN 978-1-4039-3935-7
^The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture By Dennis Denisoff, Contributor Dennis Denisoff, Edition: illustrated Published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 ISBN 0-7546-6156-3, ISBN 978-0-7546-6156-6 [1]
^McGillis Roderick "'Captain Underpants is My Hero': Things Have Changed--or Have They?" ChLA Quarterly 27 (2002): 62-70
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