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.
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Author | Thomas Henry Lister |
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Language | English |
Genre | Silver Fork |
Publisher | Henry Colburn |
Publication date | 1828 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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References
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edit- 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.