Fortescue (novel)

Fortescue
AuthorJames Sheridan Knowles
LanguageEnglish
PublisherEdward Moxton (London)
Harper Brothers (New York)
Publication date
1846
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Fortescue is an 1846 three-volume novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.[1] He had for many years been a leading West End playwright, but by this stage his career was in gradual decline and he turned to novel-writing. It is set in Cork where Knowles was born and raised. The New Monthly Magazine review believed that the novel may have been semi-autobiographical.[2] It was serialised in The Sunday Times. It was published in New York by Harper Brothers in 1847.

References

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  1. ^ The Encyclopaedia of Romantic Literature p.733
  2. ^ Murphy p.258

Bibliography

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  • Burwick, Frederick Goslee, Nancy Moore & Hoeveler Diane Long . The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
  • Law, Graham. Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press. Springer, 2000.
  • Murphy, James H. Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. Oxford University Press, 2011.