The Fair of Mayfair
| Author | Catherine Gore |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Silver Fork |
| Publisher | Henry Colburn |
Publication date | 1832 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Fair of Mayfair is an 1832 collection of short stories written by the British author Catherine Gore, published in three volumes.[1] It features six novellas which focus on fashionable London High society while siding with middle class critics of the aristocracy.[2] It was part of the genre of Silver fork novels which had gained great popularity during the later Regency era.[3]
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- Adburgham, Alison. Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840. Faber & Faber, 2012.
- Ashton, Rosemary. Victorian Bloomsbury. Yale University Press, 2012.
- Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel: Fashionable Fiction in the Age of Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Ohio State University Press, 1994.