Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error

Name: Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Errorby Marguerite Blessington\nAuthor(s): Susanne Schmid\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781848935884, 978-1848935884\nSynopsis\nIn the early and mid-nineteenth century, Marguerite Blessington, who had been born in Ireland but spent most of her life in London, became a famous salonnire; she was generally regarded as an important contemporary author, but as no literary executor took care of her oeuvre posthumously, she eventually moved into the background. Her novels, partly informed by the silver-fork genre, are typical examples of Romantic Victorianism, influenced by the Romantic cult of the solitary male self, by the fascination with Italy, and by the 1840s vogue of crime fiction, while simultaneously giving space to ambivalent reflections about Blessingtons own Irish background. \n\nThis volume, as part of Chawton House Library: Womens Novels series.