qtd. in
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Edward Copeland
Standard Name: Copeland, Edward
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Catherine Gore | George IV
is supposed to have called this the best bred and most amusing novel published in his remembrance. qtd. in Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Dissertation Thesis, University of Arkansas, May 1992. 114 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | 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... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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, 1995. 18 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Meeke | The Critical Review listed it under these variant titles in two successive months. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 520, 616 Roberta Magnani
dates this as 1815. Edward Copeland
refers to it by its earlier title only... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | 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, 1995. 346 |
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