A Catalogue of Books in First Editions Selected to Illustrate the History of English Prose Fiction From 1485 to 1870
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Radcliffe, and to the antiquary Joseph Strutt, whose Queenhoo- Hall, left unfinished by the author, he completed hastily in 1808. 76 The Scottish Chiefs, A Romance . . . By Miss Jane Porter . . . London : Printed 78 the revival of romance for Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme . . . 1810. First edition. Octavo. Five volumes. The third edition appeared in i8t6, and was dedicated to the poet Thomas Campbell, who had sent the author a sketch of Wallace's life. The work was translated into German and R...us- sian, and was proscribed by Napoleon. 79 THE NOVEL OF DOMESTIC SATIRE Frances Burney, Madame d'Arblay (1752-1840) "She had very little inventive power; her best novel, Evelina, has no plot worth speaking of. She never wrote really well. . . . What, then, was it in Evelina, and in part in Cecilia (with a faint survival even into Camilla), which turned the heads of such a town as Johnson and Burke, Walpole and Windham, and many others — which, to persons who can see it, makes the books attractive to-day, and which should al- ways give their, author a secure and distinguished place in the great torch-race of English fiction- writers?
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