Susan Ferrier

She herself thought this better than her novels, but Thackeray satirised it as Heavenly Chords; A Collection of Sacred Strains by Lady Frances Juliana Flummery. Susan Ferrier agreed with the author that the prayers...

She was probably planning this work when in 1810 she told Charlotte Clavering that Susan Ferrier 's novels made her despair of ever writing as well. It seems to have been out by 20...

Susan Ferrier helped with this first publication since LCB 's second marriage—the first that belongs to the decades of her novelistic career—by submitting it to Blackwood , her own publisher, as early as January 1820...

The title-page quotes Jeremy Taylor on life as a game of cards, involving both skill and luck. The novel's protagonist, Bertha d'Egmont, impulsively elopes with a husband she knows little about, and from this first...

Susan Ferrier , having helped to ease the novel's passage into print, wrote to one of her sisters with a very early copy, saying that she thought it had beautiful descriptions but too many of...

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...