The History of John Marten, a Sequel to the Life of Henry Milner

Book Description

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1844. [iv], 517, [7], 32pp., large 12mo. With the half-title, six pages of original publishers’ advertisements at end, and an inserted catalogue dated June, 1858 of works published for Thomas Hatchard. Original blind-embossed green cloth; neatly rebacked with the original gilt spine. First edition, the trials and tribulations of a young clergyman in English country pages, doubtless based on those of her son Henry, whose life up to and including his Oxford education she had previously fictionalized in the Henry Milner sequence of novels. Nancy Cutt mentions this book’s anti-Catholic theme, and also its “neo-Gothic episodes.” Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood, G8; Block, English Novel, p. 214.

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