In his third and most popular novel, Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock supplied a parody of contemporary literature and authors that greatly resembled in format his previous satires, Headlong Hall (1816) and Melincourt (1817). All three contain little by way… Read More ›
Susan Ferrier’s first novel, Marriage, has been labeled “shrewdly observant” by one critic and a novel “justified by its painting of Scottish manners” by another. Compared to her contemporaries Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, Ferrier develops her plot mostly within… Read More ›
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