In this unusual book CG
seems to stand mid-way between Coventry
in Pompey, 1752 (using her canine protagonist for intimate satire on the chiefly female upper classes), and Virginia Woolf
in Flush, 1933...
Literary responses
Eliza Haywood
In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of...
Textual Features
Frances Power Cobbe
It is, as the subtitle Reported by Her Mistress suggests, written in the voice of the author's Pomeranian.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Confessions of a Lost Dog. Griffith and Farran, 1867.
prelims
It thus follows the tradition of the dog narrators of Francis Coventry
's Pompey the Little...
Textual Features
Alethea Lewis
She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...
Textual Production
Catherine Gore
CG
in The Story of a Royal Favourite followed in the footsteps of Francis Coventry
in Pompey the Little, by choosing a dog as her satirical narrator of the scandals of high life.
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Textual Production
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
Jan Fergus
notes that the title mention of a dog may have raised false expectations of satire through a naive observer in the manner of Francis Coventry
's The History of Pompey the Little; or...
Timeline
1752: Francis Coventry anonymously published The...
Writing climate item
1752
Francis Coventry
anonymously published The History of Pompey the Little; or, the life and adventures of a lap-dog, a novel à clef which satirizes Pompey's successive owners.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.