According to scholar Helena Kelleher Kahn
, the first American edition of ML
's realist novel Christy Carew appeared in 1878, although standard library catalogues record no edition before 1880.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
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Kahn stands almost alone...
Textual Production
Anne Marsh
From the anonymous Woman's Devotion, 1855, by Julia Cecilia Stretton
, onwards, a string of ten titles published as by the author of have often in the past been wrongly ascribed to AM
...
Textual Production
Flora Shaw
FS
published Castle Blair, a work of children's fiction: the title-page says 1878, but bibliographer S. Austin Allibone
gives the date as 1877, so the book was probably post-dated.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott.
Allibone
also wrongly credits HS
with Amelia Gillespie Smyth's Fit to be a Duchess, with other stories of courage and principle (1860), and the following year's Mornings with Mama.
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Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Reception
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The concluding, summarising accounts of her quoted in S. Austin Allibone
's Critical Dictionary of English Literature dwell more on her beauty and style of dress than her literary achievements, though those too are praised....
Timeline
1824: Mary, Lady Shepherd, published her first...
Building item
1824
Mary, Lady Shepherd
, published her first major philosophical work, An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, a critique of the fourth of David Hume
's Philosophical Essays.
Texts
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891.