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Literary responses | Sarah Grand | The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a preposterous story, preposterously related. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 544 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Gore | CG
's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore
, was said to be the original of Thackeray
's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis. Ray, Gordon Norton. Thackeray. Octagon Books. 2: 53, 54 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | 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 |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Edward Copeland
calls this Gore's most serious and ambitious novel, one that attempts the same social and historical reach as Thackeray
's Vanity Fair, as well as a self-conscious valediction to the silver fork novel. Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press. 209 |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Thackeray
's review said, with apparent disdain: Supposing that Pall-mall were the world . . . [this] might be a good guide book. . . . the moral is that which very likely the author... |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | CG
, identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore
in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In August 2009 an issue of Women's Writing devoted to the silver-fork novel included several discussions of CG
's work. April Kendra
argued that Thackeray
learned from her as well as parodying her.Lauren Gillingham |
Literary responses | Hélène Gingold | Among five favourable reviews later quoted, the Daily Telegraph offered an apparently enthusiastic plot-summary. The Liverpool Daily Post likened the work to Thackeray
's Henry Esmond, 1852. Gingold, Hélène, and Harry Furniss. Financial Philosophy. Greening. 91 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | Like her first novel to see print, Gee says, this one took seven years to find a publisher. Speaking about it at a date fairly early in its long quest for print, she mentioned that... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
attended the opening of the Manchester Free Library
, the first major, free public lending library in England, at which speakers included Charles Dickens
, Edward Bulwer Lytton
and William Makepeace Thackeray
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 303-4 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 278-9, 295 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | Illustrated by George du Maurier
, this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope
and Thackeray
, and shared the lead with Collins
's Armadale. EG
received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's... |
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