Edward Copeland

George IV is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance. The Edinburgh Review judged it a respectable specimen of the genre of fashionable novel, and...

The Westminster Review said this novel was in itself a London Directory, which could have brought its author sponsorship from shopkeepers mentioned, and ought in turn to pay advertising tax.Thackeray picked...

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...

Edward Copeland has written that this novel catches the intense social anxiety that surrounded the passage of the Reform Bill, as La Silvestra defiantly overleaps the boundaries of class, and effortlessly deceives a bunch of...

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...

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...

Edward Copeland writes that this novel combines aristocratic gossip, mistaken identities and gross newspaper falsifications that drive its plot for three volumes of romantic confusions.

The London Court Journal and the London Literary Gazette agreed that this novel was even better than MB's Elderly Gentleman. The latter ascribed this to the niceties of feminine perception: the workings of the...

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...

Literary historian Edward Copeland points out that the hero and the Wheelers are opposites in their relation to money, and also that Mrs Wheeler's death (in hospital of injuries received from falling downstairs while drunk)...

The Critical Review listed it under these variant titles in two successive months.

This novel is part-epistolary (all the letters being in continuation from the Scottish Anna Sidney—who later becomes Lady Kilmorney—to her older friend Mrs Grenville), partly in dialogue, partly in the form of Anna's journal, and...

Literary historian Edward Copeland says she was the established conductor of this conservative periodical in this year. (She had already published in periodicals: for instance, Torbolton Abbey in the New Gleaner in 1810.) In...