This novel was advertised early the next year. As far back as 1945, Lewis's biographer Eliza Pearl Shippen
doubted the attribution to her of this novel.
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Shippen, Eliza Pearl. Eugenia de Acton (1749-1827). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945.