Contents - BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD - INDEX TO CHAPTERS - INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHIES - INDEX TO AUTHORS

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume XII. The Romantic Revival.

XI. Lesser Novelists

Bibliography

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Ainsworth, William Harrison. Rookwood: a Romance. 3 vols. 1834. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 1836.

—— Crichton.… 3 vols. 1837. With illustrations by Phiz. 1849.

—— Jack Sheppard. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 1839. [First appeared as a serial in Bentley’s Miscellany. 1839–40.]

—— The Tower of London. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 1840. [Issued in monthly parts; wrappers, and the 40 full page etchings and 58 woodcuts all by Cruikshank.] Also 1840, 1845 and 1853.

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Guy Fawkes; or, the Gunpowder Treason: an Historical Romance.… With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 1841. Also 1857. [First published in Bentley’s Miscellany.]

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And many other romances.

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—— The Foundling of Glenthorn, or the Smugglers’ Cave. 1823.

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Clive, Caroline (1801–1873). Paul Ferrol. A tale. Collection of British Authors. Vol. 364. 1841, etc.

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Croly, George. Salathiel. A Story of the Past, the Present and the Future. 1829.

—— Marston; or, the Soldier and Statesman. 3 vols. 1846.

Crowe, Catherine. Adventures of Susan Hopley: or Circumstantial Evidence. 1841.

—— The Story of Lilly Dawson. 3 vols. 1847.

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Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone. Marriage, a novel. 1818.

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Memoir and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier, 1782–1864. Ed. Doyle, J. A. 1898.

Galt, John. The Annals of the Parish. 1821.

—— The Ayrshire Legatees. 1821.

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[For full bibliography, see D. of N. B. vol. XX.]

Glascock, William Nugent. Naval Sketch-Book.… By an officer of rank [W. N. G.]. 1826.

—— Land Sharks and Sea Gulls. 3 vols. 1838.

Gleig, G. R. (1796–1888). The Subaltern. 1825.

Gore, Catherine Grace Francis. Mothers and Daughters: a tale of the Year 1830. 1831.

—— Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination. 1836.

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796–1865). A Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia. 2 vols. 1829.

—— The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville. 1837–40. [In three series.]

—— The Bubbles of Canada. 1839.

—— The Letter-bag of the Great Western, or Life in a Steamer. 1839.

—— The Old Judge, or Life in a Colony. 2 vols. 1843.

—— Sam Slick’s Saws and Modern Instances. 2 vols. 1843.

—— Traits of American Humour by Native Authors. 1843.

—— The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England. 4 vols. 1843–4.

—— Rule and Misrule of the English in America. 2 vols. 1850.

—— Nature and Human Nature. 1855.

Crofton, F. B. Haliburton: the man and the writer. 1897.

O’Brien, A. H. Haliburton (Sam Slick): a sketch and bibliography. 1909.

Hamilton, T. (1789–1842). Cyril Thornton. 1827.

Hogg, James (1770–1835). Confessions of a Justified Sinner. 1824.

Hook, Theodore. Sayings and Doings. First (-third) series. 1839.

—— Jack Brag. [A novel.] 1837.

—— Fathers and Sons: a novel. 3 vols. 1842.

Lockhart, J. G. Theodore Hook: a sketch. 4th edn. 1853.

Saintsbury, G. Essays in English Literature, 1780–1860. Second series. 1895.

Howard, Edward Granville George (d.1814). Rattlin the Reefer. 3 vols. 1836.

—— The Old Commodore. 3 vols. 1837.

—— Outward Bound; or, a Merchant’s Adventure. 1838.

—— Jack Ashore. 3 vols. 1840.

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—— The Marine Ghost. [Tales from Bentley, pt. 1. 1859, etc.]

Hood, Thomas. New Monthly Magazine. Vol. LXIV, pp. 438–441. 1842.

James, George Payne Rainsford. Richelieu: a tale of France. 1829.

—— Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold. 1830.

—— Mary of Burgundy.… By the author of Darnley. 1833.

—— Agnes Sorel, an historical romance. 3 vols. 1853.

—— The Works of G. P. R. James, revised and corrected by the Author. With an introductory preface. 21 vols. 1844–9.

Knight, Ellis Cornelia (1757–1837). Dinarbas: a tale. 1790.

—— Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy. 2 vols. 1833.

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Lamb, Lady Caroline (1785–1828). Glenarvon. 3 vols. 1816. Another edn. entitled The Fatal Passion. [1865.] [The tale contains a caricature portrait of Byron.]

—— A New Canto. 1819.

—— Graham Hamilton. 2 vols. 1822.

—— Ada Reis, a tale. 1823. Another edn. 2 vols. Paris, 1824.

Smiles, Samuel. A Publisher and his Friends. 1891.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth. Lady Anne Granard; or, keeping up Appearances. 3 vols. 1824.

—— Ethel Churchill; or, The Two Brides. 1837.

—— The Miscellaneous Poetical Works of L. E. L. 1835.

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Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick (1784–1848). Lochandhu. A tale of the Eighteenth Century. 1825.

—— The Wolfe of Badenoch: an historical romance. 1827.

—— Highland Rambles and Long Legends to shorten the way. Edinburgh, 1837.

—— Legendary Tales of the Highlands. A sequel to Highland Rambles. 3 vols. 1841.

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Le Noir, Elizabeth Anne (?1755–1841). Village Annals, a Scene in Domestic Life. 2 vols. 1803.

—— Village Anecdotes; or, the journal of a year, from Sophia to Edward. With original poems. 3 vols. 1804. Second edn. With additional characters and poems.… Revised by the author. 3 vols. Reading, [1807].

—— Clara de Montfier; a moral tale. With original poems, etc. 3 vols. Reading, 1808.

—— The Maid of La Vendée, being a second edition of Clara de Montfier … with critical remarks by Dr. Burney, and the Rev. C. Hunter, etc. 3 vols. Reading, 1819.

Lister, Thomas Henry. Granby. A novel. 1826.

—— Herbert Lacy. A novel. 1828.

—— Arlington. A novel. [1832.]

Macnish, Robert (1802–1837). The Anatomy of Drunkenness. 1827.

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—— Ladies of Bever Hollow. 1858.

—— Deborah’s Diary. 1859. [Sequel to The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell.]

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Marryat, Frederick. The Naval Officer; or Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay. 1829.

—— Peter Simple. 1834.

—— Mr. Midshipman Easy. 3 vols. 1836.

—— Jacob Faithful. 1834.

And many other tales.

—— The Novels of Captain Marryat. Ed. by Johnson, R. B. 24 vols. 1896–8.

Marryat, Florence. Life and Letters of Captain Marryat. 1872.

Moir, David Macbeth. The Life of Mansie Wauch, tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself. [By Moir, D. M.] 1828. With an introduction and notes by Henderson, T. F. [1902.] The Little Library. Illustrated in colour by Hardie, C. M. Edinburgh, 1911.

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—— The Novice of St. Dominick. 1805.

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—— Absenteeism. 1825.

—— The O’Briens and the O’Flaherties; a national tale. 4 vols. 1827.

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The Times. Jan. 21, 1865.

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—— Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca 1823.

—— The Last Man. 1826.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Lodore. 1835.

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Marshall, Florence A. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, etc. 1889.

Trelawny, Edward John (1792–1881). Adventures of a Younger Son. 3 vols. 1831. With an introduction by Brailsford, H. N. 1914. Bohn’s Popular Library.

Edgcumbe, R. J. F. Edward Trelawny. A biographical sketch. Plymouth, 1882.

Trench, Melesina (1768–1827). Campaspe, an historical Tale, and other poems. Southampton, 1815.

—— Laura’s Dream, or the Moonlanders. 1816.

—— Mary Queen of Scots, an historical Ballad, and other Poems. [n.d. privately printed.]

—— Thoughts of a Parent on Education. A new edn., with a preface and notes by the editor. 1837.

—— Journal kept during a visit to Germany in 1799–1800. Ed. Trench, R. C. [1861.]

Trench, R. C. The Remains of the late Mrs. Richard Trench, being selections from her journals, letters, and other papers. 1862.

Trollope, Frances. The Vicar of Wrexhill. 3 vols. 1837.

—— The Widow Barnaby. 3 vols. 1839.

—— The Widow Married; a sequel to the Widow Barnaby. With … illustrations. 3 vols. 1840.

—— Charles Chesterfield; or, the Adventures of a Youth of Genius [with illustrations by Phiz]. 3 vols. 1841.

—— The Barnabys in America; or, Adventures of the Widow Wedded. 3 vols. 1843.

Frances Trollope, her Life and Literary Work, by [her daughter-in-law] Frances Eleanor Trollope. 1895.

Ward, Robert Plumer (1765–1846). Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement. 1825.

Ward, Robert Plumer. De Vere, or the Man of Independence. 1827.

—— De Clifford, or the Constant Man. 1841.

Phipps, E. Memoirs of the political and literary life of R. P. W.… With selections from his correspondence, diaries, and unpublished literary remains. 1850.

Warren, Samuel (1807–1877). Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician. With notes and illustrations by the Editor. 3 vols. 1832–8.

—— Ten Thousand a Year. 3 vols. 1841. [Numerous edns. and translations.]

—— Now and Then. 1848.

—— The Lily and the Bee: An Apologue of the Crystal Palace. 1851. New edn. 1854.

—— Miscellanies, critical, imaginative, and juridical, contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine. 1855.

—— Works. 5 vols. 1854–5.

Blackwood’s Magazine. September, 1877.

Warren, S. (of Manchester). Memoirs and select letters of Mrs. Anne Warren, with biographical sketches of her family. 1827.

Wilson, John Mackay (1804–1835). A Glance at Hinduism. A poem. 1824.

—— The Enthusiast; a metrical tale, with other pieces, and a preliminary chapter on poetry. Edinburgh, 1834.

Wilson, John Mackay. Wilson’s historical, traditionary, and imaginative Tales of the Borders. 6 vols. Edinburgh, 1835–40. New edn. with a Glossary. Revised by Leighton, A. 20 vols. Manchester, 1857–9. Selected and edited, with biographical notice of the contributors, by Tait, James. Edinburgh, 1881.

Irving, Joseph. The Book of Scotsmen. 1881.

GENERAL LITERATURE

Douglas, Sir G. B. S. The Blackwood Group. (Famous Scots series.) [1897.]

Elwood, Anne K. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England. 2 vols. 1843.

Harrison, F. Studies in Early Victorian Literature. 1895.

L’Estrange, A. G. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford. 1882.

Mitford, Mary R. Recollections of a Literary Life. 3 vols. 1852.

Saintsbury, George. Essays in English Literature, 1780–1860. 1895.

—— History of Nineteenth Century Literature, 1896.

Walker, Hugh. The Literature of the Victorian Era. Cambridge, 1910.

Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. A Book of Appreciations. 1897. [By various hands.]

G. A. BROWN