FB
published her second novel, The Castleford Case, dedicated, like her first, to the Marquess of Lansdowne
.
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Dedications
Frances Browne
She dedicated it to the Marquess of Lansdowne
to thank him for his gift of £100 in 1852.
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Browne, Frances. My Share of the World. Hurst and Blackett, 1861, 3 vols.
front matter
Dedications
Caroline Norton
She had discovered the history and memories of the eighteenth-century Count
and Countess
(comte and comtesse) de La Garaye, and the basis for the frontispiece portrait of the latter and the other illustrations which CN
TM
inaugurated his publishing career with his translation Odes of Anacreon (1800). 1801 saw the appearance of his successful collection The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little, under a pseudonym which is also...
Publishing
Hester Lynch Piozzi
HLP
was a voluminous letter-writer all her life. Though scholarly estimates differ, there is no doubt that thousands of her letters survive. The first selection appeared in print in 1833. Many early editions, however, had...
Wealth and Poverty
Frances Browne
She was never well off, though she sought, and was granted, financial patronage from a number of sources. Early in her career Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
, the third marquess of Lansdowne, made Browne a generous payment...