The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival.


XI. Lesser Novelists.

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Glascock, William Nugent. Naval Sketch-Book…. By an officer of rank [W. N. G.]. 1826.
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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.
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Hogg, James (1770–1835). Confessions of a Justified Sinner. 1824.
Hook, Theodore. Sayings and Doings. First (-third) series. 1839.
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——Ladies of Bever Hollow. 1858.
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——Peter Simple. 1834.
——Mr. Midshipman Easy. 3 vols. 1836.
——Jacob Faithful. 1834.
And many other tales.
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Quarterly Review, vol. XXVI, p. 437, 1821–2; vol. XXXIX, p. 73, 1829.
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——Wearyfoot Common. [A tale.] 1855.
——The New Shilling. [1857.]
——Winter Evenings. 2 vols. 1859.
Payn, J. Some Literary Recollections. 1884.
The Times. Jan. 21, 1865.
Scott, Michael (1789–1835). Tom Cringle’s Log. 1836.
——The Cruise of the Midge. 1836.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. 1818.
——Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca 1823.
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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.
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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.]
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