Emily Eden: Difference between revisions

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 EmilyEden's favourite author.<ref>[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,798038,00.html "Not new but fresh"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 23 June 1947.</ref> The first of the two has been described by [[John Sutherland (author)|John Sutherland]] as "an accomplished study in the social contrasts of aristocratic style, bourgeois respectability and crass vulgarity."<ref>John Sutherland: ''Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction'' (1988), quoted in ''XIX Century Fiction'', Part I, A–K (Jarndyce, Bloomsbury, 2019).</ref>