In The Cabinet MinisterCG
borrowed the foundations of a plot from Jane Austen
once more, in the story of an impoverished sister and brother, Bessy and Frank Grenfell, brought up out of reluctant charity...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Meeke
The Critical Review listed it under these variant titles in two successive months.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 520, 616
Roberta Magnani
dates this as 1815. Edward Copeland
refers to it by its earlier title only...
Textual Production
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Literary historian Edward Copeland
says she was the established conductor of this conservative periodical in this year.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
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(She had already published in periodicals: for instance, Torbolton Abbey in the New Gleaner in 1810.) In...
Textual Features
Amelia Beauclerc
This is sentimental and overwritten, with confusions in its time-scheme and its prose style, well below the level of other novels by AB
. The heroine, Emily, is constantly fainting. (She has some cause: she...
Textual Features
L. E. L.
The novel also has a strong political element. It comments on the power of newspapers in national life, through reporting and editorials but also through advertising. Mr Delawarr is, says literary historian Edward Copeland, a...
Textual Features
L. E. L.
The story opens with a situation borrowed from Jane Austen
's Pride and Prejudice: a mother desperate to get five daughters safely married because the family estate is entailed away in default of a...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Meeke
So unabashed a writer of formula fiction was EM
that she often recycles her tropes and devices from one novel to the next. She is particularly given to endowing her protagonists (invariably male) with mysterious...
Textual Features
Mary Charlton
This time her take on women's predicaments is more original (and more feminist) than in Rosella. The novel opens with a sympathetic portrayal of a recently-widowed high society woman wondering how she can...
Textual Features
Mary Charlton
This novel is remarkable for its strong, indignant, essay-like opening on the topic of male and female education: The education of a young Englishman of distinction is a matter of routine: he is sent to...
Textual Features
Emily Frederick Clark
The second volume puts her through terrible trials and associates her with prostitutes (whom, as Edward Copeland
has noted, she sympathises with rather than despising).
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
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At the end of this volume she is an...
Textual Features
Catherine Gore
Like others of CG
's novels, it harks back to a less heartless age in which women's capacities were better able to expand. A character deplores the taste of modern readers for Annuals, annuals,—annuals!—The...
Textual Features
Catherine Gore
Edward Copeland
argues that Charles Willingham, a young, independent member of parliament, represents CG
's desire for reform and national revitalization, while the Westland family, who are wealthy but non-aristocratic, are the first seriously competent...
Reception
Catherine Gore
Charlotte Brontë
wrote to CG
to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
129
Edward Copeland
finds...
Reception
Catherine Gore
Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination was received by the Athenæum as a clever work, as everything which comes from the pen of Mrs. Gore must be.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
454 (1836): 482
The reviewer, however, criticised its depiction...
Reception
Maria Edgeworth
Her lifetime literary earnings (which she meticulously recorded) totalled £11,062, eight shillings, and tenpence. She also recorded with relish her use of some of the money for foreign travel.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
492
Literary historian Edward Copeland
calls...
Timeline
9 December 1826: The Literary Gazette printed a Key to Marianne...
Women writers item
9 December 1826
The Literary Gazette printed a Key to Marianne Spencer Hudson
's silver-fork novel, Almack's (titled after the well-known elite gentlemen's club of the same name), which had already reached its second edition this year. The...
Texts
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissa’s Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of a Young Lady</span>”;. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 45-67.
Perry, Ruth. “Clarissa’s Daughters, or The History of Innocence Betrayed. How Women Writers Rewrote Richardson”. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 119-41.
McMaster, Juliet. “Class”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 115-30.
Copeland, Edward. “Defoe and the London Wall: Mapped Perspectives”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
10
, No. 4, pp. 407-28.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Copeland, Edward. “Virgin Sacrifice: Elizabeth Bennet <span data-tei-ns-tag="">After</span> Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
22
, pp. 156-74.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
