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 edit

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

Bibliography edit

  • 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.