Published in four volumes (her longest) by Cadell
, it had been written some years previously. The section where the heroine's son is carried off by Indians was reprinted as The Lost Son, An Affecting...
Literary responses
Catherine Cuthbertson
Walter Scott
was hunting for a copy of this book in about 1813, calling it a now-forgotten novel;
Garside, Peter. “Walter Scott and the ’Common’ Novel, 1808-1819”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
3
.
critic Peter Garside suspects that it exercised some influence on his Guy Mannering. Garside
calls...
Literary responses
Elizabeth B. Lester
Of the anti-Catholic arguments, Peter Garside
(the first to disentangle the identities of these two writers) comments: A far cry from jolly Mrs Ross
!
Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
2
.
The sales figures suggest that EBL
was declining in popularity.
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane West
Unlike JW
's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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David Thame
believes that this and West's next novel represent a substantial change of register from gossiping...