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.
Fashionablenovels, also called silver-fork novels, were a 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the...
Isabella Milbanke, later to be the wife of Lord Byron, called it "the fashionablenovel". Noted critic and reviewer George Henry Lewes declared that he "would...
French fashions in the early 18th century. By the 1680s fashionable political European novels had inspired a second wave of private scandalous publications...
Carlyle and the fashionablenovel" in The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton, University of Delaware 2004, pp. 38–41; the chapters in the novel are 32–33 Available...
(1806). This popular tale of fashionable London life initiated a small genre of "season novels" and influenced silver fork novels in the 1820s and 1830s. Surr's...
Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина, IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Considered...
The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord...
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter...
the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly...
century later, pocket watches grew in popularity as waistcoats became fashionable for men. Wristwatches were created in the late 1600s but were worn mostly...
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The story...