Women as They Are

Women as They Are is an 1830 novel by the British writer Catherine Gore, originally published in three volumes.[1][2]It is part of the silver fork novels focusing on fashionable high society of the later Regency era. It is also known by its subtitle The Manners of the Day.[3] It was her first novel published by Henry Colburn, and was a considerable success. George IV described it as "the best bred and most amusing novel in my remembrance.[4]

Women as They Are
AuthorCatherine Gore
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSilver Fork
PublisherHenry Colburn
Publication date
1830
Media typePrint
Illustration from first edition of the novel.

References

  1. Wilson p.69
  2. Copeland p.86
  3. Rosa p.123
  4. Sutherland p.255

Bibliography

  • Adburgham, Alison. Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840. Faber & Faber, 2012.
  • Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Ohio State University Press, 1994.
  • Rosa, Matthew Whiting. The Silver-fork School: Novels of Fashion Preceding Vanity Fair. Columbia University Press, 1936.
  • Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
  • Wilson, Cheryl A. Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel. Routledge, 2015.
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