Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
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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. 492 |
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. Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press. 184 |
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... |
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 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 |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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. 209 |
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... |
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)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | She quotes Byron
on the title-page. Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley. title-page |
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