Literary historian Edward Copeland
says she was the established conductor of this conservative periodical in this year.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
346
(She had already published in periodicals: for instance, Torbolton Abbey in the New Gleaner in 1810.) In...
Literary Setting
Eliza Parsons
This novel is part-epistolary (all the letters being in continuation from the Scottish Anna Sidney—who later becomes Lady Kilmorney—to her older friend Mrs Grenville), partly in dialogue, partly in the form of Anna's journal, and...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Meeke
So unabashed a writer of formula fiction was EM
that she often recycles her tropes and devices from one novel to the next. She is particularly given to endowing her protagonists (invariably male) with mysterious...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Meeke
Literary historian Edward Copeland
points out that the hero and the Wheelers are opposites in their relation to money, and also that Mrs Wheeler's death (in hospital of injuries received from falling downstairs while drunk)...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Meeke
The Critical Review listed it under these variant titles in two successive months.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 520, 616
Roberta Magnani
dates this as 1815. Edward Copeland
refers to it by its earlier title only...
Literary responses
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Edward Copeland
writes that this novel combines aristocratic gossip, mistaken identities and gross newspaper falsifications that drive its plot for three volumes of romantic confusions.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press.
178
Literary responses
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The London Court Journal and the London Literary Gazette agreed that this novel was even better than MB's Elderly Gentleman. The latter ascribed this to the niceties of feminine perception: the workings of the...
Textual Features
L. E. L.
The novel also has a strong political element. It comments on the power of newspapers in national life, through reporting and editorials but also through advertising. Mr Delawarr is, says literary historian Edward Copeland, a...
Textual Features
L. E. L.
The story opens with a situation borrowed from Jane Austen
's Pride and Prejudice: a mother desperate to get five daughters safely married because the family estate is entailed away in default of a...
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.
114
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...
Reception
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
Edward Copeland
finds...
Reception
Catherine Gore
Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination was received by the Athenæum as a clever work, as everything which comes from the pen of Mrs. Gore must be.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
454 (1836): 482
The reviewer, however, criticised its depiction...
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.
