A Gothic Bibliography (Unabridged) E-Book

Montague Summers

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Beschreibung

An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.

Leseprobe

Contents

Preface

A Gothic Bibliography: Index of Authors

Chapter A

Chapter B

Chapter C

Chapter D

Chapter E

Chapter F

Chapter G

Chapter H

Chapter I

Chapter J

Chapter K

Chapter L

Chapter M

Chapter N

Chapter O

Chapter P

Chapter R

Chapter S

Chapter T

Chapter V

Chapter W

Chapter Y

Chapter Z

Title Index

Chapter A

Chapter B

Chapter C

Chapter D

Chapter E

Chapter F

Chapter G

Chapter H

Chapter I

Chapter J

Chapter K

Chapter L

Chapter M

Chapter O

Chapter P

Chapter Q

Chapter R

Chapter S

Chapter T

Chapter U

Chapter V

Chapter W

Chapter Y

Chapter Z

Addenda: Index of Authors

Chapter A

Chapter B

Chapter C

Chapter D

Chapter E

Chapter F

Chapter H

Chapter I

Chapter J

Chapter K

Chapter L

Chapter M

Chapter N

Chapter P

Chapter R

Chapter S

Chapter T

Chapter V

Chapter W

Title Index

Chapter A

Chapter B

Chapter C

Chapter D

Chapter E

Chapter F

Chapter G

Chapter H

Chapter I

Chapter J

Chapter K

Chapter L

Chapter M

Chapter N

Chapter O

Chapter P

Chapter R

Chapter S

Chapter T

Chapter V

Chapter W

Circulating Libraries

PREFACE

ABIBLIOGRAPHY, unless confined to one particular author, to one particular press, or circumscribed by one strictly limited period — be it measured by time or by the activities of some literary movement — is bound to appear arbitrary and even capricious in its exclusion and inclusions of names and titles.

It has not been my aim, and it would be manifestly impossible within the compass of one volume to attempt to cover nearly two centuries, that is to say to catalogue the whole field of fiction from 1728, the year of the earliest novel I list, Thievery-a-la-Mode, to 1916, the date of Mary, my last entry. Selection is inevitable, and selection can never be altogether satisfactory to everyone.

Students then may ask, and ask with a very fair show of reason, why such an author is not to be found when such an other author is given in detail. There are many answers to inquiries and criticism of this kind, but perhaps the most practical (albeit not the best) rejoinder is to point out that, as well as other economies, economies of space were prescribed, hence something must needs go by the board.

Obviously those authors, for the most part the greater names, of whom there already exist standard bibliographies, may be pretermitted. None the less, since exceptions occur to every rule, William Beckford — to cite but one instance — will be found in the Index of Authors, yet not of course without appropriate reference to the fuller individual Bibliography and the recent authoritative studies of this amazing writer.

For Sir Walter Scott, Lord Lytton, George Payne Rainsford James, to mention but three other examples (and there are many more), the student will surely expect to go to particular and detailed monographs and memoirs of these masters of romance. There is a distinction, and one which I am confident will be easily appreciated and allowed, although I can quite well conceive that at first flush the obvious query might be posed: Why is Scott not included? Why not Lytton? Why not “Solitary Horseman” James?

Again, in spite of his essential importance and long-continued influence it were impertinent to calendar all the works of Horace Walpole. On the other hand the Plays, Poems, and Journals of Matthew Gregory Lewis could not be omitted, whilst under Charles Robert Maturin even his Sermons must be recorded.

I am very well aware that full-dress Bibliographies of Lewis, of Maturin, and (above all) of Mrs. Radcliffe are badly needed. Meanwhile I believe this present Bibliography with all its shortcomings will be found to give something that has not been attempted before, and thus it will in its measure fill a very sensible gap.

In this Bibliography, at least, will be found not a few names of authors as well as titles of novels which have hitherto received no notice whatsoever, and which are missing even from the catalogues of our national libraries. Amongst other details I have been able to identify several writers who have hitherto lurked under anonymity; I have assigned a considerable parcel of romances to their rightful authors, correcting erroneous ascriptions and dates, and from time to time untangling in the course of my research a deal of ambiguity and confusion. All this helps to clear the ground.

The beginnings of this Bibliography I can trace to forty and more years since when it was my habit to make lists with notes of the various books which struck me in the course of my reading. I gradually systematized (amongst other material) my terrier of the romantic field of fiction, and so soon as I projected a study of the Gothic Novel my collections became more and more ordered and arranged, so that in a little time I had by me a handy book of quick reference.

Originally, that is to say some fifteen years age, when publication was suggested it was intended — hence the name — to concentrate upon a Bibliography of the Gothic Novel, but even so in order to make the book of real service many romances which foreshadowed and paved the way to the Gothic Novel could not be ignored, whilst it proved even more important to register the later romances which were written on the model and showed the influence of the Gothic Novel, although the parent stock was fallen from its high estate, demoded and out of vogue.

This led me to chart a region altogether unexplored, wherein it became (if possible) even harder to find the way. Here I do not claim to have done more than point the direction to other scholars, who as time goes on will be led to investigate in ampler detail, far beyond the scope of a Bibliography, that enormous school of sensational fiction which had its period of florescence from roughly 1830 to 1880, or perhaps one might even venture on a later date. Admittedly this was popular fare. As Mr. Michael Sadleir has well put it: “The Gothic Novel crashed, and became the vulgar ‘blood.’ The spirit of melodrama and of terror (which is only in rousing guise the spirit of escape) persisted unsubdued and persists to this day.” It would appear indeed that at the present time of writing no form of fiction is more widely read or more eagerly pursued. But there is one great differentiating factor. The old sensation novel even at its slummiest and worst is infinitely superior, is far better written, far better contrived than the most recklessly puffed and panegyrized “thriller ” to-day.

This disposes of the objection that the Edward Lloyd school of fiction has fallen into oblivion because it is unworthy of attention. As works of imagination these sensation novels are by no means negligible. To gain a complete understanding of the great romantic revival we must study it in all its expressions and in every mood. Romance may be uplifted in ecstatic beauty to the golden stars, but it may also be found to walk the crowded streets and hide in darkest alley-ways.

It is hardly to be surprised at that when the work of so striking figures as G. W. M. Reynolds and J. F. Smith has never received adequate treatment — it would be true to say they have never been seriously discussed at all — such authors as the prolific Thomas Peckett Prest, Malcolm J. Rymer, Mrs. Elizabeth Caroline Grey, James Lindridge, Edward Ellis, Thomas Frost, remain almost if not entirely unknown. Yet those who for the first time approach these minors — if indeed Prest and Rymer be minors in their own realm — will be astonished to find what a quality their chapters possess, how they can grip the reader’s attention and hold him fast through endless adventures and turns of fate.

A warning word is perhaps due to the student and may not be inapposite here. The scarcity of the Gothic Novel and its successors constitutes a very real difficulty, and is a practical stumbling-block in the way of research. It is astonishing of how many novels in the following Bibliography only a couple of copies, or it may be only three copies, are at present known, and often these are not available in our national libraries, but are treasured in the hands of private collectors. In several instances, so far as it is possible to locate, one solitary examplar survives.

The most famous publishing house which issued Gothic romances was beyond doubt the Minerva, although it must always be remembered (and it will, in fact, be amply evident from the following bibliography) that William Lane together with his partner and successor, Anthony King Newman, had no monopoly in Gothic fiction. Thus in 1808 T. F. Hughes, Wigmore-Street, Cavendish-Square, advertises amongst other novels — Family Annals; a Novel, in 5 vols., 255., from the chaste pen of Mrs. Hunter of Norwich, Author of Letitia, Grubthorpe Family, Lady Palmerston’s Letters, &c.; The Demon of Sicily; a Romance, 4 vols., 20L, by Edward Montague, Esq.; The Fugitive Countess; a Novel, 4 vols., 18s., by Miss Wilkinson; Adelgitha; a Play, in 5 Acts, 3 s. (3d. edition) by M. G. Lewis, Esq., as performed at Drury-Lane Theatre with great applause; Feudal Tyrants; a Romance, 4 vols., 28s, by the same author (3d. edition); The Bravo of Venice; (5th edition), a Romance, 1 vol., 6 s, by the same; The Monk of Udolpho; a Legendary Tale, 4 vols., 22 s., by Mr. Horseley Curties; Alphonsine; a Novel, in 4 vols., 22s., from the pen of Madame Genlis; The Spanish Outlaw; a Tale, 4 vols., 22s.; Friar Hildargo; a Romance, 5 vols., 25s.; Count Eugenio; or, Fatal Errors; a Tale, 2 vols., 12s.; Moss Cliffe Abbey; a Novel, 4 vols., 18s. (2nd edition) by the Author of “A Summer at Brighton”; The Kinsmen of Naples; a Novel, 4 vols., 18s. (2nd edition) by the same; A Summer at Brighton; (5th edition in 4 vols.), 20s. To this Edition is now first added the fourth Volume, containing the Memoirs and Intrigues of the Modern Lais, a well-known woman of rank and fashion. The fourth volume is sold separate. Legends of a Nunnery; a romantic Legend, in 4 vols., 20s.; Confessions of Constantia; a Tale, 3, vols., 135. 6d.; The Three Germans; a Romance, 3 vols., 12s.

The printers in ordinary for J. F. Hughes were J. Dean, 57 Wardour Street, Soho; and D. N. Shury, Berwick Street, Soho.

The first superintendent of the Minerva printing office, John Plummer, was followed by John Darling, who was succeeded by his son, the name Darling actually persisting as late as 1859.

The Minerva Press, Lane, or Lane and Newman, did not publish for Mrs. Radcliffe or Monk Lewis or Charlotte Dacre or Maturin. (It is true that late editions of Mrs. Radcliffe appear among Newman’s advertisements.) On the other hand they published — yet not exclusively — for Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Roche, Mrs. Meeke, Francis Lathom. In their particular field under the aegis of Minerva, Lane and Newman achieved an eminence which has left behind a name and a tradition even until to-day.

William Lane commenced bookseller about 1770, and publisher some four years later. It was not until 1790 that he adopted the title Minerva, and in the following year “at the Minerva, Leadenhall Street ” begins to appear regularly on his title-pages. Anthony King Newman, an apprentice of Lane, was taken into partnership in 1801, and in 1802 the title-pages carry “Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane and Newman, Leadenhall-Street.” In 1803 we have “Lane, Newman, and Co.” In 1809 William Lane somewhat reluctantly — it is said — retired from business, and thus the title-pages now read “Printed at the Minerva-Press, for A. K. Newman and Co. (Successors to Lane, Newman, & Co.). William Lane died on Saturday, 29th January, 1814, at his residence, No. 3 Gloucester Place, Brighton. Timperley, Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote, gives his age as seventy-six.

After 1820 Newman dropped “Minerva Press” from his title-pages, and during the thirties he was specializing in “Juvenile and Prize Books” of which he issued glowing catalogues. His ware included such specimens as Angelina, or Conversations of A Little Girl with Her Doll with numerous cuts, at half-a-crown; Miss Selwyn’s Fairy Tales, half bound in roan, or cloth, lettered, with 40 plates at two shillings, which seems a cheap handsel; and Miss Caroline Horwood’s Original Poetry for Children, also costing but a florin. At this time too he was issuing large numbers of the stories of that “amiable and ingenious writer of tales for young and old alike,” the admired and eminently meritorious Mrs. Barbara Hofland (1770-1844). Newman’s catalogue of 1838 includes no less than thirty of this lady’s works. There are her tales, Decision, Energy, Fortitude, Patience, Self-Denial, the evergreen Young Crusoe, or, The Shipwrecked Boy, as well as her more distinctly educational lucubrations, Africa Described, Including the Recent Discoveries; A Panorama of Europe; The Illustrated Alphabet, and many more. In their “Elegant Embossed Bindings, With Gilt Edges, And Lettered, Illustrated with Plates,” the Hofland Tales are really charming little volumes.

The output of romances was sparser in these years, although it had by no means ceased. In 1841, for example, Newman published The Witch of Aysgarth in three volumes by Miss C. D. Haynes.

Newman was also much occupied with remainder publishing. Buying the sheets from other houses he printed a new title-page carrying his own name, and thus in his catalogues we find titles of books which actually had already appeared bearing the imprint of another firm. There is no indication, moreover, that the Newman issue is not a genuine first.

In Notices to Correspondents, The London Journal, edited by G. W. M. Reynolds; published Vickers, 28 Holywell Street, Strand; Vol. I, No. 20, July 12th, 1845, p. 320, col. 3, R.S.L. is informed: “Lord Byron did not write ‘The Vampire,’ although it was for many years attributed to him. It can be procured of Newman, Leadenhall Street.”

A. K. Newman retired in 1848. The stock was sold to Robert S. Parry, also a remainder publisher, who continued business at the Minerva for six years, until 1854.

Of Anthony King Newman, Le Fanu wrote in March, 1862: “That patron of undeveloped fictional genius held on till within the last score years, when he retired to take some rest at Gravesend, at the ripe age of four score. From all that we can learn, he was an estimable citizen, and possessed judgement in his peculiar walk. Remnants of his stock, done up in cloth to have a modem air, were sent to the great auction-rooms in Dublin, Edinburgh, and other large towns, previous to handing on his good-will to his successor. At this day there is no representative of the old firm.” Forgotten Novels: Dublin University Magazine, March, 1862; Vol. LIX, No. CCLI (P349)

The following Bibliography had been some little while in the printer’s hands when there was issued The Minerva Press 1790-1820 By Dorothy Blakey, Ph.D. London Printed For The Bibliographical Society At The University Press, Oxford 1939 (for 1935). Miss Blakey by concentrating upon a particular press during a particular period has naturally been able to handle her material in far greater detail than would be possible in the case of a one volume Bibliography the scope of which extends over nearly two hundred years, and hence is necessarily set out on quite another plan. The industry of Miss Blakey’s research is evident, and The Minerva Press 1790-1820 remains a valuable contribution to the Gothic library.

Whilst I have not attempted to include in this Bibliography the “roman noir” or the “Schauerroman ” a few French and German writers are admitted, either because their works were frequently translated into English by our native novelists, or else because they directly influenced the development of the Gothic Novel in England. This I feel to be allowable, if only for the one fact that such references, which for the most part cost a good deal of time and trouble to check up and trace, will certainly prove grateful to scholars.

For the same reason I have drawn attention to various dramatizations of Gothic Novels.

Of the ten plays of Henry Siddons there has been occasion to list only one, The Sicilian Romance. For the rest the Biographia Dramatica and Genest must be consulted. The Sicilian Romance, however, is intrinsically important, as also is all the dramatic work of Maturin.

None the less I would have it clearly understood that I did not conceive any particular treatment of these parerga to lie within my province.

This observation equally applies to the Gothic pataches, those wee oberins the chapbooks which swarmed from the parasitic presses of Houndsditch and the Borough and Finsbury Square, from Tegg, Dean and Munday, Roe, Harrild, J. Ker, and Ann Lemoine. I have (as I hope) sufficiently recognized the existence of the sixpenny “blue books” — so called from their 36 pages being roughly stitched into a cover of flimsy blue paper — without attempting exhaustively to apprize their numbers.

It should perhaps be pointed out that there will be found some entries under authors’ names in the Index of Authors which have not been duplicated in detail in the body of the Bibliography. The reason for this is that whilst in not a few cases it seemed useful and even necessary to give a complete list of an author’s work it was obviously not required to devote to his every treatise or monograph, which had no connexion with imaginative writing, such additional space and consideration as must have swelled the Bibliography to a second volume without any real profit or advantage. At the same time the student is advised to consult in the course of his inquiries both the Index of Authors and the Bibliography proper.

It is with very real regret that so long a list of Addenda has been found necessary. I can only ask those who use this Bibliography generously to bear in mind that the proofs were corrected at a most unhappy time under the most untoward and difficult conditions. Several libraries, for example, in which I had planned important and extensive research circumstances rendered impossible of access. It even became a question whether publication should be indefinitely and quite indeterminately postponed, or whether, as was in fine and I believe well decided, the Bibliography should be issued in spite of so serious lets and unavoidable mischance.

It is a pleasure to thank Mr. Michael Sadleir, a great votary of the Gothic Novel, for the kindly interest he has shown in the present Bibliography, and for the generous courtesy with which he has replied to my frequent questions fabulis de Gothicis. I am especially obliged to him for reading through and checking the Miss Braddon section in the “Index of Authors.” His intimate knowledge and authority afforded me many valuable suggestions.

Mr. Robert Black of the University of Virginia has not only most generously spared neither time nor trouble in discussing with me and disentangling many perplexed points concerning Gothic romances and their authors, but has further entrusted me with rare novels from his magnificent collection, sending them from America to England. I am moreover indebted to him for permitting me the full use of the Catalogue of his Library to the very great and manifest advantage of my Title Index.

To that eminent scholar Mr. Frederick Coykendall of New York I owe particular thanks for much real and truly appreciated encouragement during the progress of my work. This took a very practical form, for he has been good enough to allow me to print several important notes upon that important book The Monk, as also upon Tales of Terror. Many another page of my Bibliography has profited by his wide knowledge and sympathy.

For their encouragement and for help so freely given in various ways I am gratefully obliged to Mr. C. R. Dawes, who read through and checked the de Sade section in the “Index of Authors,” and with whom I have to my advantage discussed details not a few; to Mr. F. C. Francis; Sir Ambrose Heal; Mons. Maurice Heine; the late Mr. C. A. Ransom; and Sir John Squire. The article on Robert Huish appeared in Notes and Queries, n February, 1939; Vol. 176, No. 6; whence it is reprinted by kind permission of the Editor.

During the whole course of a long and laborious piece of work I have been greatly aided by the practical assistance and many valuable suggestions of Mr. Hector Stuart-Forbes, who will (I trust) accept this very' inadequate recognition and acknowledgement.

A GOTHIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF AUTHORS

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ACTON, Mrs. Eugenia de

Essays on the Art of Being Happy, Addressed to a Young Mother 1803

A Tale Without A Title: Give It What You Please 1804

The Nuns Of The Desert; Or, The Woodland Witches 1805

The Discarded Daughter 1810

AGG, John

Edwy And Elgiva; An Historical Romance Of The Tenth Century 1811

AINSWORTH, William Harrison (1805-1882). Many of Ainsworth’s novels are in the Gothic tradition. Rookwood, 1834, he explicitly avows to be “a story in the bygone style of Mrs. Radcliffe.” There is a very ample Ainsworth Bibliography in Vol. II of William Harrison Ainsworth and His Friends by S. M. Ellis, 1911. See also H. Locke’s Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels of Wm. Harrison Ainsworth, 1925.

ALEXANDER, Gabriel

A very prolific miscellaneous writer and journalist. Below are listed his five best known novels, and what are probably his two most famous short stories.

Robert Bruce; The Hero King of Scotland 1840

Wallace; or The Hero of Scotland 1848

The Minister’s Story. Short story 1850

The Bottle; or, The Drunkard’s Career 1850

The Avenger. Short story 1850

Lilias; or, The Milliner’s Apprentice 1851

Adelaide; or, The Trials of a Governess 1854

ALGERNON

The Royal Wanderer; or, The Exile of England 1815

ALLENDALE, Alfred

The Man of Sorrows 1808

AMPHLETT, J.

Ned Bentley 1809

ANDREWS, Charles

The Spectre 1789

ANDREWS, Dr.

Augusta; or, The Female Travellers 1788

ANN OF KENT

The Castle Of Villeroy; Or, The Bandit Chief 1827

ANN OF SWANSEA. Mrs. Julia Ann Curtis, née Kemble, and formerly Mrs. Ann Hatton (1764-1838) Joseph Knight and other authorities state that this lady was the fifth child of Roger Kemble, and the sister of John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons. Betrayed by a bigamous first marriage with Mr. Hatton, she was left a widow by her second husband, Mr. Curtis, with whom she had been compelled to fly from America on account of the yellow fever. She obtained considerable notoriety and greatly scandalized her family by an attempt to poison herself in Westminster Abbey. Eventually she settled at Swansea, subsisting upon a small pension made up by Mrs. Siddons and other relatives, since the hotel she opened, the “house of assembly,” the “school of dancing and deportment,” had all proved insufficient for her support. She is said to have been a mistress of Edmund Kean and to have written a drama for him whilst he was a member of Andrew Cherry’s company, whose circuit included Swansea, Carmarthen and Haverfordwest in South Wales; Waterford and Clonmel in Ireland. Kean acted with Cherry 1809-11. Mrs. Curtis was a celebrated local figure, a favourite and frequent contributor of verses to the Swansea newspaper, Cambrian. Percy Fitzgerald, The Kembles (1871), Vol. II. pp. 98-107, says that Mrs. Ann Curtis proclaimed herself up and down the town as the youngest sister of Mrs. Siddons and intensely annoyed the famous tragedienne by her general behaviour and proceedings. At length Mrs. Siddons paid the novelist twenty pounds a year on condition that she permanently resided not less than one hundred and fifty miles from London. No doubt this or some similar condition was attached to the annuity the Kembles allowed their poor relation, but it seems highly improbable that if Mrs. Curtis had not been their sister they would have contributed (however niggardly) to her maintenance. With regard to her literary output it must be acknowledged that the romances of the prolific Mrs. Curtis are by no means lacking in quality, and in its kind her talent is far from mediocre.

Cambrian Pictures; Or, Every One has Errors 1810

Poetic Trifles 1811

Sicilian Mysteries; Or, The Fortress Del Vechii 1812

Conviction; Or, She is Innocent! 1814

Secret Avengers; Or, The Rock of Glotzden 1815

Chronicles of an Illustrious House; Or, the Peer, the Lawyer, and the Hunchback 1816

Gonzalo de Baldivia; or, A Widow’s Vow. A romantic legend 1817

Secrets in Every Mansion; or, The Surgeon’s Memorandum Book. A Scottish record. 1818

Cesario Rosalba; Or, The Oath of Vengeance 1819

Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments 1821

Guilty or Not Guilty; Or, A Lesson for Husbands 1822

Woman’s a Riddle, a Romantic Tale 1824

Deeds of the Olden Time 1826

Uncle Peregrine’s Heiress 1828

Gerald Fitzgerald; An Irish Tale 1831

ANWYL, E. Trevor

Reginald Trevor; or, The Welch Loyalists, a Tale of the Seventeenth Century 1829

The Youth of Edward Ellis 1830

Tales of Welshland and Welsherie 1831

ARMSTRONG, Leslie

The Anglo-Saxons; or, The Court of Ethelwulph 1806

ARNOLD, Lieutenant

The British Admiral 1808

Lucky Escapes; or, Systematic Villany 1809

The Irishmen 1810

ARNOLD, Jun., Samuel James (1774-1852)

The Creole; or, The Haunted Island 1796

Samuel James Arnold is the author of the popular melodrama The Woodman's Hut, produced at Drury Lane on 12th April, 1814, with music by C. E. Horn.

Arnold was a very prolific dramatist, who translated from Pixerecourt, Charles the Bold; or, The Siege of Nantz, Drury Lane, June 15th, 1815, from Charles le Temeraire, ou le siege de Nancy; from Caignier, The Maid and the Magpye; or, Which is the Thief, Lyceum, August 28th, 1815, from La pie voleuse, ou la servante de Palaiseau; and adapted Scott, The Wizard; or, The Brown Man of the Moor, Lyceum (then English Opera House) July 26th, 1817.

ASHE, Captain Thomas

The Charms of Dandyism 1819

ATKYNS, Samuel

Adeline; or, The Grave of the Forsaken. A drama, adapted from the novel of the same name published by E. Lloyd, 1841, and produced at the Royal Albert Saloon, Shepherdess-walk, Britannia Fields, Hoxton, on September 29th, 1849. Atkyns was house dramatist to the Albert Saloon, which opened in 1844 under H. Brading, and here all his one-and-twenty dramas were given. In August, 1844, a license was refused to his The Thieves' House; or, The Murder Cellar of Fleet Ditch. At the same time, August, 1844, George Dibdin Pitt’s The Murder House; or, The Cheats of Chick Lane (Britannia), and Thomas Prochis Taylor’s George Barrington; or, The Life of a Pickpocket (Garrick) were prohibited.

B

BACULARD D’ARNAUD, Francois Thomas De (1716-1805)

Les Epoux malheureux, ou l'histoire de Monsieur et de Madame de la Bedoyere 1745

Les Amans malheureux, ou le Comte de Comminge, drame en trois actes... suivi des Memoires du comte de Comminge 1764

Euphemie; ou Le Triomphe De La Religion, drame en trois actes... suivi des Memories D’Euphemie. Seconde Edition 1768

Selicourt, nouvelle (pp. 79) 1769

Anne Belle, histoire angloise (pp. 64) 1769

Epreuves du sentiment, romans, 6 tom. 1772-81

Nouvelles historiques 1774-84

Delassements de l'homme sensible 1783-93

The “drames monacles” and novels of Baculard D’Amaud had a great influence on the development of Gothic romance. His tone is often more than a little morbid, and he reflects Young’s Night Thoughts, Hervey’s Meditations among the Tombs, and the sensibility of Richardson. A large number of the stories (many dealing with England) from his Collections were translated into English. Thus Sophia Lee translated Varbeck (Nouvelles historiques, Tome premier, seconde nouvelle) as Warbeck, a pathetic Tale. There are also English versions of The History of Sidney and Volsan, Dublin, 1772; Fanny, or The Happy Repentance, 1777; The History of Count Gleichen, 1786; Lorimon; or Man in Every Stage of Life, 1803; and other pieces by D’Arnaud.

The above is a fairly representative list of D’Amaud’s work as influencing the Gothic romance, but it is by no means complete.

BAGE, ROBERT (1728-1801)

Mount Henneth 1781

Barham Downs 1784

The Fair Syrian 1787

James Wallace 1788

Man As He Is 1792

Hermsprong; or, Man as he is not 1796

BALFOUR, FAIRFAX

Ida Lee; or, The Child of the Wreck 1863

Serialized in the London journal, commencing 1 6th May, 1863.

Nelly; or, The Companions of the Chain 1864

Serialized in the London Journal, commencing 5th March, 1864.

Three Women; or, The Fatal Passion 1865-6

Serialized in the London Journal, commencing gth December, 1865.

Fairfax Balfour was a well-known sensation novelist of the day. The above are typical of his work, which in its kind often reaches a high level.

BALL (FITZBALL). Edward (1792-1873)

The famous writer of melodramas.

The Black Robber; a romance 1819

BARHAM, Rev. Richard Harris (1788-1845)

Baldwin; or A miser’s heir. A serio-comic tale. “By an old bachelor” 1820

Some Account of My Cousin Nicholas. By Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq. Author of The Ingoldsby Legends, to which is added The Rubber of Life 1841

My Cousin Nicholas was originally serialized in Blackwood 1834. The Ingoldsby Legends which first appeared in Bentley’s Miscellany, were collected in 3 series, First Series, 1840; Second Series, 1842; Third Series, 1847. Barham contributed about one third of the Lives to A General Biographical Dictionary by John Gorton, new ed., 3 vols. 1847.

Martin’s Vagaries 1843

Pub. A. H. Baily and Co.

Two etchings and a woodcut by G. Cruikshank. Wrappers.

BALLIN, Miss Rossetta

The Statue Room; an Historical Tale 1790

BANNERMAN, Anne

Tales of Superstition And Chivalry (Gothic Poems) 1802

BARKER, Mary

A Welsh Story 1798

BARNBY, Mrs.

The Rock; or, Alfred and Anna 1801

Kerwcdd Castle; or, Memoirs of the Marquis de Solanges 1804

From the French, Mémoires du Marquis de Solanges, by J. A. Jullien des Boulmiers, 2 pts., Amsterdam, 1766.

The American Savage 1808

BARRETT, Eaton Stannard (1786-1820)

noms de plume, Cervantes Hogg and Polypus

All The Talents, a satirical poem by Polypus 1807

There were nineteen editions in the course of a year. Sometimes erroneously ascribed to William Combe.

All The Talents’ Garland, including Elijah’s Mantle, and other Poems of the same author 1807

James Sayers published anonymously, All The Talents’ Garland; or, a few rockets [in verse] let off at a celebrated ministry. Second ed., 8vo. London, 1807.

The title-page of the First edition of the same year slightly varies.

The Rising Sun 1807

The Second Titan War against Heaven; or, The Talents buried under Portland Isle. A satirical poem 1807

The Comet, an opposition newspaper satirized 1808

The Miss-Led General, a Serio-Comic, Satiric, Mock-Heroic Romance 1808

The Tarantula; or, The Dance of Fools. A satirical work 1809

The Setting Sun; or, Devil amongst the Placemen. To which is added a new musical Drama; being a Parody on the Beggar’s Opera 1809

8vo. A burlesque by Cervantes Hogg.

Woman. A Poem 1810

This poem contains the famous lines:

Not she denied her God with recreant tongue,

Not she with traitrous kisses round Him clung;

She, while Apostles shrank, could danger brave,

Last at His Cross and earliest at His grave.

It must be remembered that the author assiduously revised and polished his

Poem, therefore there are variants of these lines.

The Metropolis; or, A cure for gaming. Interspersed with anecdotes of living characters in high life. By Cervantes Hogg, Esq. 1811

3 vols., Minerva-Press, A. K. Newman.

The Heroine; Or, Adventures Of A Fair Romance Reader 1813

Third ed., 1815, The Heroine, Or Adventures of Cherubina.

My Wife! What Wife? 1815

Farce, produced at The Haymarket on July 17th, 1815.

The Talents run mad; or, Eighteen Hundred and Sixteen 1816

A satirical poem.

Six Weeks At Long’s. By a late Resident 1817

For The Hero; A Novel, In Three Volumes, advertised in The Heroine, 1815, 3rd ed., as In the Press and sometimes ascribed to Barrett, see under Mrs. Sophia Shedden.

BARTHEZ DE MARMORIERES, Baron,

Antoine Elnathan; ou les ages de l'homme. Traduit du Chaldeen. Elnathan; or, The Ages of Man. English translation 1811

BARTON, James

Honorina 1804

BASTIDE, Jean Francois De

Les Aventures de Victoire Ponty.

Mutual Attachment; or, The Memoirs of Victoria de Ponty. English translation 1784

BEAUCLERC, Amelia

Eva Of Cambria; or, The Fugitive Daughter 1810

Ora And Juliet; or, Influence of First Principles 1811

The Castle of Tariffa; or, The Self -Banished Man 1812

Alinda; or, The Child of Mystery 1812

Montreithe; or The Peer of Scotland 1814

Husband Hunters!!! 1816

The Deserter 1817

Disorder And Order 1820

Ora And Juliet has been incorrectly ascribed by Miss Dorothy Blakey ( The Minerva Press, p. 236 and p. 330, Bibliographical Society, 1939 for 1935) to Emma De Lisle. Miss Blakey also incorrectly ascribes Eva of Cambria (Minerva Press, p. 330) to Emma De Lisle.

BEAUFORT, LL.D., John

The Daughter of Adoption; A Tale of Modern Tunes 1801

BECKFORD, William Thomas of Fonthill (1759-1844)

Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters. Anon 1780

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents. In a series of Letters from various parts of Europe. Anon. 1783

Suppressed; re-issued in a revised form as Vol. I. of Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal, 1834.

An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript.

Half-title, The History of the Caliph Vathek. Henley’s translation 1786

Vathek. (A Lausanne) (actually 1786) 1787

Vathek, Conte Arabe. (A Paris) 1787

New revised version, London. 1815.

The Episodes of Vathek. With a translation by Sir Frank T. Marzials 1912

Modern Novel Writing, Or The Elegant Enthusiast. A Rhapsodical Romance... By the Right Hon. Lady Harriet Marlow 1796

Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel... By Jacquetta Agncta Marian Jenks 1797

Epitaphs, some of which have appeared in the Literary Gazette of March and April, 1823. Anon. N.D. [1825] Italy: with Sketches of Spain and Portugal 1834 Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaga and Balalha 1835

The Vision and Liber Veritatis 1930

Popular Tales of the Germans. Translated from the German. Anon. 1791

Unpublished Tales.

Histoire d’Elouard Felkanaman et d’ Ansel Hougioud L'Esplendente

Histoire de Darianoc, jeune homme du pays de Gou-Gou.

Histoire de Zinan et des trois Montagues.

It has been conclusively shown by Mr. J. W. Oliver and Mr. Guy Chapman that The Story of Al Raoui, A Tale from the Arabic, 1799, often attributed to Beckford, is the work of the Rev. Samuel Henley.

The Beckford Papers contain many unpublished MSS., some translations of Arabic tales, others original stories.

For a detailed account of Beckford’s work consult A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill by Guy Chapman in conjunction with John Hodgkin, London, Constable, 1930.

See also, The Life of William Beckford of Fonthill, 1932, by J. W. Oliver, and Beckford, 1937, by Guy Chapman.

BEDFORD, John H.

The Wanderings Of Childe Harold 1824

BENGER, Miss

The Heart and the Fancy; or, Valsinore 1813

BENNET, Elizabeth

Faith and Fiction; or, Shining Lights in a dark generation 1816

Emily; or, The Wife’s First Error: and Beauty & Ugliness; or, The Fathers Prayer and the Mothers prophecy 1819

BENNETT, Mrs. Agnes Maria ( -1808)

Mrs. Bennett died at Brighton, 13th February, 1808. “On Saturday morning, at her home on the South Parade, Mrs. Bennett.” Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 15th February, 1808.

Anna; or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress. Interspersed with Anecdotes of a Nabob 1785

Juvenile Indiscretions 1786

Agnes De-Courci. A Domestic Tale 1789

Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel 1794

The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors 1797

Vicissitudes abroad; or, the Ghost of my Father 1806

BENNETT, Mrs. Elizabeth

The Cottage Girl; or, The Marriage Day 1842

The Orphan Sisters; or, The Lover’s Secret c. 1843

The Gipsey Bride; or, The Miser’s Daughter c. 1844

The Broken Heart; or, The Village Bridal 1844

Family Mysteries 1853-4

Mrs. Bennett’s novels were for the most part published without any date.

BENSON, Miss Maria

System and no System, or the Contrast 1815

Miss Benson also wrote Thoughts on Education.

BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE, Jacques Henri (1737-1814)

The Shipwreck; Or, Paul And Mary. An Indian Tale 1789

Translation of Paul et Virginie, 1787.

The Indian Cottage; Or, A Search After Truth 1791

Translation of La Chaumiere indienne, 1791.

Paul And Virginia 1796

Translation of Paul et Virginie, 1787.

BIANCHI, Michael Angelo

Levity and Sorrow 1809

Translated from A. von Kotzebue’s Luise.

BICKNELL, Alexander ( -1796)

The Benevolent Man 1775

The History of Lady Anne Neville 1776

Isabella: or, The Rewards of Good-Nature 1776

The History of Edward Prince of Wales, commonly termed the Black Prince 1776

The Life of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons 1777

Prince Arthur: an allegorical romance 1778

An Apology for the Life of George Ann Bellamy 1785

5 vols., a famous theatrical work.

The Patriot King: or, Alfred and Elvida. An historical tragedy 1788

Doncaster Races; or, the History of Miss Maitland: a Tale of Truth 1789

Bicknell was a miscellaneous writer of verse, philosophical prose, and upon grammar, The Grammatical Wreath.

BIRCH, John Brereton

The Cousins of Schiras 1797

BIRD, John

The Castle of Hardayne 1795

The Mountain Boy, a metrical romance 1816

BLACKFORD, Mrs. Martha

The Eskdale Herd Boy 1819

One vol., 12 mo, Harris. Price 5/-

The Scottish Orphans: a moral tale 1822

One vol., 12mo, Welter. Price 3/6 Arthur Monteith, a continuation of “The Scottish Orphans” 1822

One vol., 121110, Hurst. Price 3/6

Annals of the Family of M’Roy 1823

3 vols., Wetton.

Tales of my Aunt Martha 1823

3 vols., A. K. Newman & Co.

The Young Artist 1825

One vol., Hurst.

William Montgomery; or, The Young Artist 1828

One vol., Hurst.

BLANCHARD, EDWARD LEMAN or LAMAN (1820-1889)

The Mysteries of London; or, Lights and Shadows of London Life 1849-50 When G. W. M. Reynolds severed his connexion with George Vickers and transferred to a new publisher,

John Dicks, Vickers commissioned Thomas Miller to write the Third Series, and E. L. Blanchard to write the Fourth Series of The Mysteries of London, of which the First and Second Series were the work of Reynolds. It must be allowed that neither Miller nor Blanchard can be considered as successful as Reynolds, and the Third and Fourth Series fell far below the original conception of the work. Blanchard was a very busy miscellaneous writer and a leading dramatic critic.

His pantomimes were established favourites. For further details see under his name in the Dictionary of National Biography.

BLOUNT, Margaret

The Birthright 1860

Serialized in Reynold’s Miscellany, commencing

March 24th, 1860.

Reprinted Dick’s English Novels, price sixpence, No. 65

The Foster Sisters 1860

Serialized in Reynolds’s Miscellany, commencing June 30th, 1860.

In Spite of Themselves 1860

A short story, Reynolds’s Miscellany, November 10th, 1860.

Maid, Wife, and Widow; or, The Story of Barbara Home 1861

Serialized in Reynolds’s Miscellany, commencing January 26th, 1861.

Barbara Home, a novel, three volumes 1864

Lamia; or, The Dark House of Drerewater 1861

Serialized in Reynolds’s Miscellany, commencing May 25th, 1861, concluding October 5th, 1861.

Set in Gold. A Tale of the Times 1861

Serialized in Reynolds’s Miscellany, commencing October 5th, 186.

Once Wooed, Twice Won: The Story of a Woman’s Heart 1861

Serialized in Reynolds’s Miscellany, commencing November 30th, 1861.

Saturday Right: a Weekly Journal conducted by Margaret Blount 1862, etc.

The Orphan of Charnley New York 1864

New York; Brady’s “Mercury Stories.”

A Dangerous Woman: A Study from Life New York 1864

Brady’s “Mercury Stories,” 1864. Sixpenny Volume Library, London, 1865.

A Broken Life: a Domestic Story 1866 (1865)

Sixpenny Volume Library, London.

Margaret Blount also wrote The Lady of Castle-Rose (before 1861, reprinted Dicks’ English Novels, No. 63); Mona Lisa; both before 1861: Brent Hall (Dicks’ English Novels, No. 71). She was a very prolific and popular writer. The above are typical of her work.

BLOWER, Miss Elizabeth (1763- )

The Parsonage House 1780

George Bateman 1782

Maria 1785

Features from Life; or, A Summer Visit 1788

French translation (1788): La Visite d’Ete; ou Portrait de Mosurs.

For Elizabeth Blower see The New Lady’s Magazine, September, 1789, pp. 482-5.

BLUEMANTLE, Mrs. Bridget (pseudonym), also Martha Homely (pseudonym), Mrs. E. Thomas.

The Three Old Maids of the House of Penruddock 1806

The Husband And Wife; or, The Matrimonial Martyr 1807

Monte Video; or, The Officer’s Wife and Her Sister 1809

Mortimer Hall; or, The Labourer’s Hire 1811

The Vindictive Spirit 1812

Always Happy; or, Anecdotes of Felix and His Sister 1813

The Prison-House; or, The World We Live In 1814

The Baron of Falconberg; or, Childe Harolde in Prose 1815

Claudine; or, Pertinacity 1817

Purity of Heart; or, The Ancient Costume 1818

Woman; or, Minor Maxims 1818

Helena Egerton; or, Traits of Female Character 1824

A ‘new edition, revised and corrected,’ of Woman.

BOLEN, C. A.

The Mysterious Monk; or, The Wizard’s Tower 1826

Walter the Murderer; or, The Mysteries of El Dorado 1827

BONHOTE, Mrs. Elizabeth (1744-1818)

The Rambles of Mr. Frankly, published by his sister 1773-6

The Fashionable Friend 1776

Hortensia 1777

Olivia; or, The Deserted Bride 1787

The Parental Monitor 1788

Darnley Vale; or, Emilia Fitzroy 1789

Ellen Woodley 1790

Bungay Castle 1796

Feeling, a poem 1810

BOTTENS, Jeanne Isabelle Pauline De, Baroness De Montolieu Caroline 1786

Translated by Thomas Holcroft as Caroline of Fichtfield 1786

Tableaux de famille. Translated by Mary Charlton as The Reprobate 1802

Le Village de Fobenstein. Translated from the German of August Lafontaine, Der Sonderling. Madame de Montolicu’s version was translated into English by Mrs. Meeke as Lobenstein Village 1804

BOS

Dickensian piracies and travesty.

The Sketch Book by Bos 1836

Nicholas Nicklebury 1838

The Posthumous Notes of the Pickwickian Club; or, The Penny Pickwick, 2 vols. 1838-1839

The Life and Adventures of Oliver Twiss, the Workhouse Boy 1839

Pickwick in America, edited by Bos 1839

Mr. Dumfries Clock 1840

All published by Edward Lloyd in penny weekly numbers.

The “Bos” parodies and imitations of Dickens were written in collaboration by Thomas Peckett Prest, William Bayle Bernard, and Morris Barnett. Lloyd the publisher suggested the idea of travesties of the popular Dickens, and he urged that the pen-name of “Boaz” should be used. It was pointed out to him that this was too biblical, whilst the letter “z” being so nearly “Boz” might involve legal proceedings.

After some discussion “Bos” was fixed upon, and in spite of protests from Charles Dickens and his publishers Lloyd issued “Bos” tales very successfully for five or more years.

The illustrations to Pickwick in America are said to be by George Cruick-shank, and the book in the reprint of 1855 was assigned to G. YV. M. Reynolds, which seems an erroneous attribution.

A similar Dickensian piracy is Dombey and Daughter, by R. Nicholson, 1848.

BOUNDEN, Joseph

Fatal Curiosity; or, The Vision of Silvester. A Poem 1805

The Murderer; or, The Fait of Lecas 1808

The Deserted City: Eva: Electricity. Poems 1824

BOYS, Mrs. S.

The Coalition; or, Family Anecdotes 1785

BRADDON, Mary Elizabeth, Mrs. John Maxwell (October 4th, 1837 — February 4th, 1915)

See Time Gathered Autobiography (1937). By W. B. Maxwell, Chapter XVII, “My Mother’’ for some account of Miss Braddon and how she commenced novelist.

Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath 1854

When Miss Braddon was staying at a farmhouse near Beverly, Yorkshire, Empson a Beverly printer who had noticed many of her verses and sketches in local papers commissioned her to write for him a story which “should combine the humour of Dickens with the plot construction of G. W. M. Reynolds.” Three Times Dead had just been issued in penny numbers with fierce woodcuts of the E. Lloyd school of illustration when Empson failed. On the title page the main imprint is “London: W. M. Clark, 16 and 17 Warwick Lane.” Empson, Beverly, is much smaller. Mr. Michael Sadleir writes to me: “I have a set of the proof sheets of Three Times Dead, which belonged to James Mills, who, according to his statement written on the fly-leaf, read the proofs for Empson. He says the novel was published in penny numbers ‘in the year 1854 or thereabouts.’” Three Times Dead was considerably altered and appeared later as The Trail of the Serpent, see below under this title. About 1858-9 Miss Braddon came to London.

The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight 1860

The serial with which The Halfpenny journal “started cn its ambitious but brief career.”

Loves of Arcadia: a comedietta 1860

Produced at the Royal Strand Theatre

The Trail of the Serpent; or, The Secret of the Heath 1866

Mr. Michael Sadleir writes to me: “The first appearance of The Trail of the Serpent was, I believe, in one vol. blue cloth, 1866; Ward, Lock & Tyler. This edition contains a Publisher’s device dated July, 1866, describing the book as a largely rewritten version of an earlier (unnamed) tale, now making its first appearance. I have a letter from Maxwell to Empson, dated 1865 stating that he owns an assignment of copyright in the book, but will consider Empson’s claim (clearly a claim to ownership) on a basis of documents. I incline to think negotiations delayed publication till 1866 by which time Maxwell was (I conclude from the evidence) with Ward, Lock.”

As The Trail of the Serpent the book was published in the popular yellow back edition, 1867, and included in the “autograph edition.” In a letter to myself, July 28th, 1907, Miss Braddon said: “The autograph edition in cloth, of all my books, is better than the oldfashioned yellow back.”

The American pirated edition, New York, Dick and Fitzgerald, retains the title Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath.

Preference books record an 1861 edition of The Trail of the Serpent, but this has not hitherto been seen, and it is strongly to be suspected that it is a ghost. There is a translation from the French, Thrice Dead. A Novel. In three volumes. By Paul Feval. London: T. Cautley Newby, 1869.

Garibaldi, and other Poems 1861

Published by Bosworth and Harrison

Aurora Floyd 1863

3 vols., Tinsley.

A serial in Temple Bar. Published by Tinsley Bros, who had tied their new author for several successive books.

Lady Audley’s Secret 1861

Commenced as a serial in Robin Goodfellow, a paper edited by Charles Mackay and issued from an office of its own, 122 Fleet Street. The same address appears on the earliest Maxwell publication, Henry Dunbar.

This ended after thirteen weeks (July 6 — Sept. 28, 1861) and the unfinished serial began again in The Sixpenny Magazine, commencing in Vol. II, No. 3. March, 1862. Lady Audley’s Secret was “second serialized” in The London Journal from March 21st to August 15th, 1863.

Lady Audley’s Secret 1862

3 vols., Tinsley Bros.

Published October 1st, 1862, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th editions, all 3 vols., 1862. See “Notes on ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’” by Michael Sadleir, Times Literary Supplement, May 11th, 1940.

Lady Lisle 1862

Pres. inscription dated October, 1862.

The Fourth Volume in Ward and Lock’s “Shilling Library of New Fiction.”

The Captain of the Vulture 1862

Commenced as a serial in Ward and Lock’s Sixpenny Magazine, September, 1861. Published, when complete, as Vol. XIV of their “Shilling Library of New Fiction.”

Ralph the Bailiff, and other Tales 1862

Eleanor’s Victory 1863

3 vols., Tinsley.

John Marchmont’s Legacy 1863

3 vols., Tinsley. 2nd edit. 3 vols., Dec., 1863.

The Outcasts 1863

By the Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret, etc.” Written expressly for The London Journal as a serial commencing on September 12th, 1863, and concluding in 1864. The serial version of

Henry Dunbar, The Story of an Outcast 1864

3rd edit., 3 vols., May, 1864.

3 vols., John Maxwell and Co. In America as The Outcasts; or, The Brand of Society

The Doctor’s Wife 1864

3 vols., John Maxwell and Co. 2nd edit., 3 vols., October, 1864.

Only a Clod 1865

3 vols., John Maxwell and Co. 2nd edit., 3 vols., May, 1865.

Sir Jasper’s Tenant 1865

3 vols., John Maxwell and Co. 2nd edit., 3 vols., 1865. 3rd edit., 3 vols., 1865. 4th edit., 3 vols., Oct., 1865.

The firm of Maxwell appear to have been indebted to Ward, Lock and Tyler, and Miss Braddon’s next seven novels were claimed by Ward, Lock with whom she was obliged to publish her work until the obligation had been met.

The Lady’s Mile 1866

3 vols., Ward, Lock and Tyler.

Rupert Godwin 1867

3 vols., Ward, Lock and Tyler.

The Fourth Edition, 3 vols., of Rupert Godwin is advertised in Birds of Prey.

Birds of Prey 1867

3 vols., Ward, Lock and Tyler.

Run to Earth 1867

3 vols., Ward, Lock and Tyler.

Dead Sea Fruit 1868

3 vols., Ward, Lock and Tyler.

Charlotte’s Inheritance 1868

Pres. inscription dated February, 1868.

3 vols., Ward, Lock and Tyler.

My Sister Caroline. Belgravia 1870

Fenton’s Quest 1871

3 vols., Ward, Lock and Tyler.

The Lovels of Arden 1871

3 vols., John Maxwell.

A Presentation copy from Maxwell is dated ‘February, 1871'

The Summer Tourist: a Book for Long and Short Journeys 1871

Edited by Miss Braddon

Robert Ainsleigh 1872

3 vols., John Maxwell.

To the Bitter End 1872

3 vols., John Maxwell.

Lucius Davoren 1873

3 vols., Maxwell.

Milly Darrell; And Other Tales 1873

3 vols., Maxwell.

The contents of the First Edition, 3 vols., of Milly Darrell are: — Vol. I.: Milly Darrell; Old Rudderford Hall; The Splendid Stranger; Hugh Damer's Last Leger. Vol. II.: Hugh Damer (contd.); The Sins of the Fathers; Mr. and Mrs. De Fontenoy; A Good Hater; The Dreaded Guest; Colonel Benyon’s Entanglement. Vol. III.: Colonel Benyon (contd.); The Zoophyte’s Revenge; At Chrighton Abbey; Three Times; and On the Brink.

In the yellow back uniform edition of Miss Braddon’s novels the “Other Tales” accompanying Milly Darrell were: Old Rudderford Hall; Hugh Darner’s Last Leger; The Sins of the Fathers {Belgravia); Air. and Airs. De Fontenoy; A Good Hater; The Dreaded Guest; Colonel Benyon’s Entanglement; The Z 00 ~ phyte’s Revenge; At Chrighton Abbey; Three Times; and On the Brink.

Strangers and Pilgrims 1873

3 vols., Maxwell.

Griselda: a drama in four acts. Produced at the Princess’s Theatre, November, 1873 1873

Lost for Love 1874

3 vols., Chatto & Windus.

Taken at the Flood 1874

3 vols., Maxwell.

In 1874 Miss Braddon married John Maxwell.

Hostages to Fortune 1875

3 vols., Maxwell.

A Strange World 1875

3 vols., Maxwell.

Dead Aden’s Shoes 1876

3 vols., Maxwell.

Put to the Test, a novel [by A. Buisson], 2 vols. 1865

Put to the Test 1876

3 vols., Maxwell. Edited by Miss M. E. Braddon.

Joshua Haggard’s Daughter 1876

3 vols., Maxwell. Pres, inscription to Tinsley dated October 16, 1876.

Weavers and Weft 1877

3 vols., Maxwell. Pres, inscription dated March 2, 1877.

An Open Verdict 1878

3 vols., Maxwell.

The Mistletoe Bough 1878

Continued as an Annual until 1892.

The Cloven Foot [1879]

3 vols., Maxwell.

Vixen 1879

3 vols., Maxwell.

The Shadow in the Corner 1879

Summer number of All The Year Round.

The Story of Barbara; Her Splendid Misery, and Her Gilded Cage 1880

3 vols., Maxwell.

Miss Braddon in her “Explanation ” which prefaces Vol. I, says that this novel was commenced in The World under the title “Splendid Miser).” A short story of the same name which “lay buried for years” in a halfpenny weekly journal caused the proprietor to claim copyright and some litigation ensued. Miss Braddon eventually adopted as her title The Story of Barbara.

Just As I Am 1880

3 vols., Maxwell.

Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp 1880

Revised by M.E.B.

Maxwell, 8vo., 1880.

The Missing Witness; an original Drama in Four Acts. 1880 J. and R. Maxwell, 8vo., 1880. Another ed. 1882. Boscastle, Cornwall, an English Engadine 1880 In The World, September 15th, 1880. Published separately, 8vo., 1881, by W. S. Cater & Co., Launceston.

Asphodel 1881

3 vols., Maxwell.

Mount Royal 1882

3 vols., Maxwell.

Dross, or the Root of Evil, a comedy in four acts 1882

8vo., Maxwell.

Marjorie Daw, a Household Idyll in Two Acts 1882

Suggested by a story written by T. B. Aldrich. 8vo. Maxwell.

Married Beneath Him, a Comedy in Four Acts 1882

8vo., J. and R. Maxwell [1882].

The Golden Calf 1883

3 vols., Maxwell.

Married in Haste 1883

3 vols., Maxwell.

Phantom Fortune 1883

3 vols., Maxwell.

Flower and Weed 1884

3 vols., Maxwell.

Ishmael [1884]

3 vols., Maxwell.

Wyllard’s Weird [1885]

3 vols., Maxwell.

Court Royal (Cornhill) 1885-6

One Thing Need ful 1886

3 vols., Maxwell.

Cut by the County 1886

8vo., pp. 192, Maxwell.

Mohawks [1886]

3 vols., Maxwell.

Under the Red Flag 1886

In the yellow back florin edition of Miss Braddon’s novel with Under the Red Flag, No. 45, were included Dross; or, The Root of Evil, a comedy (1882); Sir Philip’s Wooing; Dorothy’s Rival; At Daggers Drawn; A Great Ball and a Great Bear; The Little Woman in Black; Across the Footlights; My Wife’s Promise; Marjorie Daw, in two acts (1882).

Like and Unlike 1887

3 vols., Spencer Blackett.

The Fatal Three 1888

3 vols., Simpkin Marshall.

The Day Will Come [1889]

3 vols., Simpkin, Marshall.

One Life, One Love 1890

3 vols., Simpkin, Marshall.

Gerard; or, The World, The Flesh, and The Devil 1891

3 vols., Simpkin, Marshall. Pres, inscription dated October, 1891.

The Venetians 1892

3 vols., Simpkin, Marshall. Pres, inscription dated June, 1892.

All Along the River 1893

3 vols., Simpkin, Marshall.

Volume I contains All Along the River.

Volume II contains Say the False Charge was True. Volume III contains eight tales: One Fatal Moment; It is Easier for a Camel (reprinted from Printer’s Pie ); The Ghost’s Name; Stapylton’s Plot; His Oldest Friends; If there be any of you; The Island of Old Faces; and My Dream.

The Christmas Hirelings 1893

In the Christmas Number of the Lady’s Pictorial, written at her home, Annesley Bank, Lyndhurst, in the autumn of 1893.

The Christmas Hirelings. By M. E. Braddon 1894

Reprinted in one vol., Simpkin, Marshall. Illustrated by F. H. Townsend.

Thou Art the Man [1894]

3 vols., Simpkin, Marshall.

My First Book 1894

Contributed to a volume of experiences by well-known authors.

Sons of Fire [1895]

3 vols., Simpkin, Marshall. Pres, inscription dated September, 1895.

London Pride; or, When the World was Lounger 1896

1 vol., 8vo., Simpkin, Marshall.

Good Lady Ducayne 1896

In The Strand Magazine, February, 1896, Vol. XI, pp. 185-199.

Under Love’s Rule. 1897

1 vol., Simpkin, Marshall.

In High Places 1808

1 vol., 8vo., Hutchinson.

Rough Justice 1898

1 vol., 8vo., Simpkin, Marshall.

The Christmas Tree. Downey’s Annual 1898

Contains a contribution by Miss Braddon.

His Darling Sin [1899]

1 vol., 8vo., Simpkin, Marshall.

The Infidel. A Story of The Great Revival 1900

1 vol., Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.

The Conflict 1903

1 vol., 8vo., Simpkin, Marshall.

A Lost Eden 1904

1 vol., 8vo., Hutchinson.

Rose of Life 1905

1 vol., 8vo., Hutchinson.

The White House 1906

1 vol., 8vo., Hurst and Blackett.

Her Convict 1907

1 vol., 8vo., Hurst and Blackett.

Dead Love has Chains 1907

1 vol., 8vo., Hurst and Blackett.

During Her Majesty's Pleasure 1908

1 vol., 8vo., Hurst and Blackett.

Our Adversary 1909

1 vol., 8vo., Hutchinson.

Beyond These Voices 1910

1 vol., 8vo., Hutchinson.

The Green Curtain 1911

1 vol., Hutchinson and Co.

Miranda 1913

1 vol., Hutchinson and Co.

Mary 1916

1 vol., Hutchinson and Co.

Miss Braddon during her long literary career did a vast amount of miscellaneous work. In her earlier days she contributed to the old Sporting Magazine under the noms de plume of “Gilbert Forrester ” and “A Member of the Burton Hunt.” For the Poet’s Corner of provincial newspapers she composed not only songs and sentimental verses, but parodies and even political squibs. She conducted for many years various magazines, amongst others Belgravia A London Magazine, and herein were serialized a number of her novels.

A novel, Mirk Abbey, which has been ascribed to Miss Braddon is the work of James Payn. It was published anonymously. Mirk Abbey. By the author of Lost Sir Massingberd, etc. 3 vols., 8vo. London, 1866. Reprinted from “Chambers Journal.”

Not a few of Miss Braddon’s novels were pirated in New York during the sixties and seventies, sometimes under the proper titles, sometimes with an altered name. Thus Dick and Fitzgerald published Miss Braddon’s “Celebrated Novels,” including The Lady’s Mile; Lady Audle/s Secret; The Outcasts, or The Brand of Society; Darrell Markham, or, The Captain of the Vulture; and Dudley Carleon, or, The Brother’s Secret, “a tale of startling interest.”

Mr. Michael Sadleir has kindly obliged me with the following note upon the American issues of Miss Braddon.

1887. Married in Haste, “edited by Miss Braddon” (small format). Geo. Munro. Seaside Library. New York. Cr. 8vo. wrapper.

(1864.) The Lawyer’s Secret. Peterson. Philadelphia. 8vo. wrapper.

n.d. de Witt’s “Braddon Series.” de Witt. N.Y. 8vo. wrapper.

The White Phantom or the Nameless Child.

The Lucky Girl or All is not Gold that Glitters.

The Black Band or the Mysteries of Midnight.

Oscar Bertrand or the Black Band Unmasked.

The Octoroon or the Lily of Louisiana.

Blue Band or a Story of a Woman’s Vengeance. Leighton Grange or Who Killed Edith Woodville. 1884-8. The Leisure Hour Library. Trigg, etc. N.Y. 4to. paper, contains the following novels bearing Miss B’s name: —

Dudley Carleon. Ap. 20, 1884. Trigg.

Jasper Dane’s Secret. Feb. 20, 1885. Lupton.

The Fatal Marriage. June 30, 1886. Lupton.

His Second Wife. Sept. 4, 1886. Lupton.

The Lawyer’s Secret. May 28, 1887. Lupton. George Caulfield’s Journey. July 21, 1888. Lupton. American issues.

Munro’ s Seaside Library. Large 4to format.

Darrell Markham. Nov. 5, 1878.

Only a Woman. Sept. 3, 1879.

BRETON, Marianne

The Wife of Fitzalice; and The Caledonian Siren 1817

BREWER, Esq., R. N., George

The History of Tom Weston, After the Manner of Tom Jones 1791

The Motto; or, The History of Bill Woodcock 1795

BREWER, James Norris [c. 1777-1829)

The Mansion House 1796

A Winter’s Tale 1799

Secrets made Public 1808

The Witch of Ravensworth 1808

Mountville Castle, a Village Story 1808

An Old Family Legend 1811

Sir Gilbert Easterling, a Romance 1813

Sir Ferdinand of England 1813

The Fitzwalters, Barons of Chesterton; or, Ancient Times in England 1829

Brewer also wrote many topographical and miscellaneous works.

BRISTED, John of the Inner Temple

Edward and Anna; or, A picture of human life 1806

BRODERICK, Miss

The Cumberland Cottager 1818

BROMLEY, Eliza Nugent

The Cave of Consenza. Altered from the Italian 1803

BROOKS, Indiana

Eliza Beaumont and Harriet Osborne; or, The Child of Doubt 1789

BROWN, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)

Born Philadelphia, January 17th, 1771; died February 19th, 1810

The Rhapsodist 1789

A series of papers which appeared in The Columbian Magazine, August — November, 1789.

Alcuin 1797

A dialogue on the rights of women, inspired by Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Sky-Walk 1797

A romance finished on December 31st, 1797. The MS. was lost before it could be printed, but Brown on March 17th, 1798, announces his book in a letter to the Weekly Magazine, signed “Speratus.”

Wieland; or, The Transformation 1798

Written in the single month of August. London ed. 1811

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Tear 1793

Part I, 1799; Part II, 1800. 3 vols. London. Minerva-Press, 1803.

The first nine chapters appeared in The Philadelphia Weekly Magazine, June, 1798. Herein also were published the first ten parts of Alcuin entitled The Rights of Women.

Ormond; or, The Secret Witness. 1799. One vol., London, Minerva-Press. 1800. Written in December, 1798. One chapter taken from The Man at Home which he had contributed to The Weekly Magazine.

Edgar Huntly; or, The Sleep Walker. 1799. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleepwalker. 3 vols., London: Minerva-Press. 1803.

Jane Talbot 1801. 2 vols. London, Minerva-Press. 1804

Clara Howard 1801

Philip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of Love. 2 vols. London: Minerva-Press. 1807

The English edition of Clara Howard.

Carwin the Biloquist, and other American Tales London: 1822

Collected editions of Brown’s Works, 7 vols., Boston, 1827; and 6 vols., Philadelphia, 1887. Biography by Dunlap. In April, 1799, Brown began to edit The Monthly Magazine; in 1803 at Philadelphia he founded The Literary Magazine; and he was responsible for practically the whole of The American Register, 1807-11. He also wrote other miscellaneous journalism.

BROWN, Elizabeth Cullen

The Sisters of St. Gothard 1819

BROWN, William Hill (1765-1793)

To William Hill Brown is now ascribed the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy. See under Sarah Wentworth Morton. Brown “turned out at least one other novel, two plays, and a considerable number of poems, essays, and sentimental tales.”

BRYDGES, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

Mary De-Clifford. A story. Interspersed with many poems 1792

Arthur Fitz Albini 1798

Le Forester. A novel 1802

Coningsby. A tragic tale 1819

Tragic Tales. Coningsby and Lord Brokenhurst 1820

Sir Ralph Willoughby. An historical tale