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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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Gore | In The Cabinet MinisterCG
borrowed the foundations of a plot from Jane Austen
once more, in the story of an impoverished sister and brother, Bessy and Frank Grenfell, brought up out of reluctant charity... |
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 |
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 |
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). Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 18 |
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... |
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. Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press. 184 |
Textual Features | Amelia Beauclerc | 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... |
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