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...
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...
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.
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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...
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).
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At the end of this volume she is an...
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.
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Literary historian Edward Copeland
calls...
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.
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Textual Features
Catherine Gore
Like others of CG
's novels, it harks back to a less heartless age in which women's capacities were better able to expand. A character deplores the taste of modern readers for Annuals, annuals,—annuals!—The...
Reception
Catherine Gore
George IV
is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
The Edinburgh Review judged it a respectable specimen
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.
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of the genre of fashionable novel, and...
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
which could have brought its author sponsorship from shopkeepers mentioned, and ought in turn to pay advertising tax.
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.
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...
Timeline
9 December 1826: The Literary Gazette printed a Key to Marianne...
Women writers item
9 December 1826
The Literary Gazette printed a Key to Marianne Spencer Hudson
's silver-fork novel, Almack's (titled after the well-known elite gentlemen's club of the same name), which had already reached its second edition this year. The...
Texts
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissa’s Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of a Young Lady</span>”;. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 45-67.
Perry, Ruth. “Clarissa’s Daughters, or The History of Innocence Betrayed. How Women Writers Rewrote Richardson”. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 119-41.
McMaster, Juliet. “Class”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 115-30.
Copeland, Edward. “Defoe and the London Wall: Mapped Perspectives”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
10
, No. 4, pp. 407-28.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Copeland, Edward. “Virgin Sacrifice: Elizabeth Bennet <span data-tei-ns-tag="">After</span> Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
22
, pp. 156-74.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
