George Lovell Explained

George Lovell
Author:	James Sheridan Knowles
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Publisher:	Edward Moxton (London) Burgess, Stringer & Company (New York)
Release Date:	1847
Media Type:	Print

George Lovell is an 1847 novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles, published in three volumes.^[1] Sheridan Knowles had made his name writing stages plays, particularly tragedies such as Caius Gracchus and Virginius. He then turned to writing novels this was the second following the semi-autobiographical Fortescue (1846).^[2] His second novel focused on a series of adventures experienced by the son of a jeweller. Some reviewers found the novels too earnest in their tone.^[3] Both enjoyed more success in the United States that in Britain.^[4] Charlotte Brontë mentions the novel in one of her letters.^[5]

Bibliography

• Burwick, Frederick Goslee, Nancy Moore & Hoeveler Diane Long . The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
• Gibson, Gertrude Gladys. James Sheridan Knowles and His Dramas. University of Iowa, 1930.
• Rollyson, Carl Edmund & Magill, Frank Northen. Critical Survey of Drama. Salem Press, 2003.
• Smith, Margaret (ed.) The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848–1851. Clarendon, 1995
• Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Routledge, 2014.

Notes and References

1. Gibson p.210
2. The Encyclopaedia of Romantic Literature p.733
3. Sutherland p.360
4. Rollyson & Magill p.733
5. The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: p.350-51