1st Edition

Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error by Marguerite Blessington

Edited By Susanne Schmid Copyright 2019
444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge

In the early and mid-nineteenth century, Marguerite Blessington, who had been born in Ireland but spent most of her life in London, became a famous salonnière; she was generally regarded as an important contemporary author, but as no literary executor took care of her oeuvre posthumously, she eventually moved into the background. Her novels, partly informed by the silver-fork genre, are typical... Read more

Acknowledgments;  Introduction;  Select Bibliography;  Note on the Text;  Marmaduke Herbert;  Editorial Notes;  Silent Corrections;  Textual Variants in the American Edition

Biography

PD Dr. Susanne Schmid is based in the Department of English, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany