Abstract
Astley Paston Cooper's father was a Norfolk clergyman who married well and lived well. When he died, an obituary tempered its praise with a suggestion that he paid a little too much attention to appearances. The family arrived at Sunday services via a coach and four; the four black horses a glorious sight, but somewhat needless given they lived next door to the church. The Reverend Samuel Cooper's sermons sold well, preaching solid Church and King values, but his wife's novels did rather better. Written in the form of letters, Maria Susanna Cooper's stories were sentimental and idealistic, pushing the values of the contemporary orthodoxy: both with and without a capital letter, the couple were conservative.
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