Novel 172: Catherine Gore, The Banker’s Wife (1843)
A scheming banker has little sympathy for his family.
Here is another excellent novel by Gore (see Novels 012, 072, 118), filled as usual with shrewd social satire.
“A very clever, and what is more, a very readable novel; clear, rapid, fluent, abounding in pointed sentences.” Spectator, September 16, 1843
No living author “possesses greater power in the delineation of character.” Sunday Times, September 17, 1843
“The ‘name’ of its writer, first as that of a woman, and secondly as that of a popular ‘novelist,’ will long keep it out of the hands of those ‘grave and reverend signors,’ who are the chief dispensers of that reputation which they cannot compass for themselves, and who . . . will never be satisfied that a woman has been gifted with faculties of observing . . . nature.” Morning Post, October 1843
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