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==Fiction==
Eden wrote two successful novels: ''The Semi-Detached House'' (1859) and ''The Semi-Attached Couple'' (1860). ([[Semi-detached|Semi-detached houses]] were becoming a more widespread form of dwelling for the middle classes, as [[Life in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution|Britain continued to industrialise and urbanise]].) The latter book was written in 1829, but not published until 1860. Both have a comic touch that critics have compared with that of [[Jane Austen]], who was
Eden's letters were published by [[Violet Dickinson]], a close friend of [[Virginia Woolf]]. They contain memorable comments on English public life, most famously her welcome for the new [[King William IV]] as "an immense improvement on the last unforgiving animal [[George IV]] — this man at least wishes to make everybody happy."
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