The Fair of Mayfair

The Fair of Mayfair is an 1832 collection of short stories written by the British author Catherine Gore, published in three volumes.Ashton p.140 It features six novellas which focus on fashionable London High society while siding with middle class critics of the aristocracy.Copeland p.198-200 It was part of the genre of Silver fork novels which had gained great popularity during the later Regency era.Copeland p.41

References

Bibliography 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.