Francis Coventry

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...

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...

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...

It is, as the subtitle Reported by Her Mistress suggests, written in the voice of the author's Pomeranian. It thus follows the tradition of the dog narrators of Francis Coventry 's Pompey the Little...

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.

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...