Edward Copeland

Standard Name: Copeland, Edward

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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...
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...
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 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 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 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 Production Catherine Gore
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.
346
(She had already published in periodicals: for instance, Torbolton Abbey in the New Gleaner in 1810.) In...

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