MJY
broke with her usual practice and published anonymously when she turned to what Nicola Lloyd
calls scandal fiction in A Summer at Brighton. A Modern Novel, dated 1807.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Mary Julia Young
MJY
published a second novel without her name, A Summer at Weymouth; or, The Star of Fashion, as by the Author of A Summer at Brighton.
Nicola Lloyd
gives this title wrongly...
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Mary Julia Young
A three-volume, anonymous Minerva
novel, The Family Party, 1791, has also been widely ascribed to MJY
since Dorothy Blakey
first made the attribution in 1939 from a Minerva
catalogue of 1814.
Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. Oxford University Press, 1939, p. 337 pp.
153
This seems...
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Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18.