Herbert Lacy Explained

Herbert Lacy
Author:	Thomas Henry Lister
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Silver Fork
Publisher:	Henry Colburn
Release Date:	1828
Media Type:	Print

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. It was his second novel following Granby (1826).^[1] Much of the plot revolves around politics, with the title character elected to Parliament. It also examines the alliance between the aristocracy and growing middle classes^{[2] [3]} Like many of the silver fork novels it was published by Henry Colburn.

Bibliography

• 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.
• Ingleby, Matthew. Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury: Novel Grounds. Springer, 2018.
• Rosa, Matthew Whiting. The Silver-fork School: Novels of Fashion Preceding Vanity Fair. Columbia University Press, 1936.

Notes and References

1. Rosa p.71
2. Copeland p.84-85
3. Ingleby p.26