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Pin Money is an 1831 novel by the British writer Catherine Gore, originally published in three volumes. [1] It was part of the group of silver fork novels published during the later Regency era that focuses on life in the fashionable British upper classes. [2]
Disraeli was a notable writer of silver fork novels early in his career. Catherine Gore was a prolific and bestselling author of the silver fork genre. Fashionable novels, also called silver-fork novels, were a 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.
The Disowned is a novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published in three volumes. [1] It is part of the then-popular genre of silver fork novels, focusing on British high society of the late Regency era.
It was his breakthrough novel, launching him as one of Britain's leading authors. It is part of the tradition of silver fork novels that enjoyed great popularity in the late Regency and early Victorian eras. It follows the adventures of Henry Pelham, a young dandy, in Paris, London and the fashionable spa town of Cheltenham. [1]
Herbert Lacy is an 1828 novel by the British writer Thomas Henry Lister, originally published in three volumes.It was part of the then-popular genre of silver fork novels depicting life in the high society of late Regency Britain.
Cecil, or Adventures of a Coxcomb is a 1841 novel by the British writer Catherine Gore, originally published in three volumes by Richard Bentley.It is part of the tradition of Silver Fork novels, which had enjoyed great success in the 1820s and 1830s but was coming to an end by the early Victorian era. [1]
Almack's is a silver-fork novel, set in the Georgian era of the early nineteenth century during the reign of King George IV. The title of the novel likely refers to the Almack's social clubs in London. [5] Like several other silver-fork novels, Almack's made reference to the fashionable Persian ambassador, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan. [6]
"Silver fork novels" are described by English professor Paola Brunetti to her husband Guido, in Donna Leon's fourth Commissario Guido Brunetti novel Death and Judgment aka A Venetian Reckoning (1995), chapter 22, as "books written in the eighteenth century, when all that money poured into England from the colonies, and the fat wives of ...