The Tuileries (novel)

The Tuileries is an 1831 novel by the British writer Catherine Gore.[1] A bestselling writer of silver fork novels, Gore turned in this to the recent history of Paris following the French Revolution and particularly the Tuileries Palace. Gore herself had a low opinion of the work and when her publisher Richard Bentley asked her to write a review of itshe declined observing it was "a very dull work" and that she "could find little to say its favour" concluding that "the public must be more dense than I dare hope, if they can be persuaded that it is really a work of interest".[2] It was one of two novels that Mary Shelley sent for in May 1831 along with Benjamin Disraeli's The Young Duke.[3]

The Tuileries
AuthorCatherine Gore
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSilver Fork
PublisherColburn and Bentley
Publication date
1831
Media typePrint

References

  1. Rosa p.127
  2. Gettman p.70
  3. Garrett p.91

Bibliography

  • Adburgham, Alison. Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840. Faber & Faber, 2012.
  • Garrett, Martin. A Mary Shelley Chronology. Springer, 2001.
  • Gettman, Royal A. A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers. Cambridge University Press, 10 Jun 2010.
  • Rosa, Matthew Whiting. The Silver-fork School: Novels of Fashion Preceding Vanity Fair. Columbia University Press, 1936.


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