Women as They Are explained

Women as They Are
Author:	Catherine Gore
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Silver Fork
Publisher:	Henry Colburn
Release Date:	1830
Media Type:	Print

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]

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. 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.

Notes and References

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