Edward Copeland

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...

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.Edward Copeland finds...

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. Literary historian Edward Copeland calls...

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). At the end of this volume she is an...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...