William Painter

Standard Name: Painter, William

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DM published The Power of Love: in Seven Novels, five of them reworked from The Palace of Pleasure by William Painter , 1566, while the last in the volume has another, different source, and...

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26 January 1566: William Painter's dedication to The Palace...

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26 January 1566

William Painter 's dedication to The Palace of Pleasure (volume one) makes early use of the word novel in approximately its modern sense: these histories (which by another terme I call Nouelles).
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
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, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

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