Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax

In 1858, G. W. M. Reynolds’s (1814–79) popular penny periodical Reynolds’s Miscellany introduced a new ‘authoress’, Lady Clara Cavendish. Reynolds bragged that Cavendish’s novels would reveal Hanoverian court corruption—for a great price, which he happily paid. However, as some Victorian critics spe...

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Main Author: Rebecca L. Nesvet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2022-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/10742