Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Edward Copeland
Standard Name: Copeland, Edward
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Reception | Catherine Gore | George IV
is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance. Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas. 114 |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | The Westminster Review said this novel was in itself a London Directory, Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 425-40. 435 Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 425-40. 435 |
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... |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | 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... |
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 |
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. 18 |
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... |
politics | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
remarks that her testimony in court, though damaging to her reputation in society, established her as a strong, public Whig proponent for the rest of her life. Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press. 184 |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
argues that this text, though designed to ride the wave of the new silver-fork novel, draws its influences from an earlier generation: Frances Burney
, Susan Ferrier
, and Richardson
's Sir Charles... |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
finds most interesting in these novellas the attention to money-earning, and the way the young people (morally so much preferable to their elders, whether aristocratic or rich bourgeois) are helped out by servants... |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
thinks that this is the most challenging of LCB
's novels because of the complex interrelationship, in Delamere, between aristocratic pastimes, the arts, and the Whig aristocracy. He sees the amateur theatricals as... |
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... |
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