''Granby'' is an 1826 novel by the British writer
Thomas Henry Lister
Thomas Henry Lister (1800 – 5 June 1842) was an English novelist and biographer, and served as Registrar General in the British civil service. He was an early exponent of the silver fork novel as a genre and also presaged "futuristic" writing i ...
, published in three volumes. His first novel, it was part of the emerging genre of
silver fork novel
Fashionable novels, also called silver-fork novels, were a 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.
Era
The silver-fork novels dominated the English literature market from the mid-18 ...
s which take place in fashionable
upper class settings of
Regency Britain.
[Rosa p.69-70]
References
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.
* Rosa, Matthew Whiting. ''The Silver-fork School: Novels of Fashion Preceding Vanity Fair''. Columbia University Press, 1936.
1826 British novels
Novels set in London
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