ABSTRACT
In the early and mid-nineteenth century, Marguerite Blessington, who had been born in Ireland but spent most of her life in London, became a famous salonnière; she was generally regarded as an important contemporary author, but as no literary executor took care of her oeuvre posthumously, she eventually moved into the background. Her novels, partly informed by the silver-fork genre, are typical examples of Romantic Victorianism, influenced by the Romantic cult of the solitary male self, by the fascination with Italy, and by the 1840s vogue of crime fiction, while simultaneously giving space to ambivalent reflections about Blessington’s own Irish background.
This volume, as part of ‘Chawton House Library: Women’s Novels’ series, presents her 1847 novel Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error, a highly popular piece of fiction in its day, being reprinted in German, French and American editions within a year of its publication.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |136 pages
Marmaduke Herbert;
chapter I|5 pages
chapter II|7 pages
chapter III|6 pages
chapter IV|5 pages
chapter V|6 pages
chapter VII|6 pages
chapter VIII|5 pages
chapter IX|6 pages
chapter X|7 pages
chapter XI|6 pages
chapter XII|7 pages
chapter XIII|6 pages
chapter XIV|7 pages
chapter XV|5 pages
chapter XVI|6 pages
chapter XVII|6 pages
chapter XVIII|5 pages
chapter XIX|5 pages
chapter XX|6 pages
chapter XXI|6 pages
chapter XXII|5 pages
chapter XXIII|7 pages
part |133 pages
Marmaduke Herbert;
chapter II|6 pages
chapter III|5 pages
chapter IV|5 pages
chapter V|5 pages
chapter VI|5 pages
chapter VII|5 pages
chapter IX|5 pages
chapter X|5 pages
chapter XI|5 pages
chapter XII|5 pages
chapter XIII|5 pages
chapter XIV|6 pages
chapter XV|5 pages
chapter XVI|6 pages
chapter XVII|5 pages
chapter XVIII|4 pages
chapter XIX|5 pages
chapter XX|6 pages
chapter XXI|5 pages
chapter XXII|5 pages
chapter XXIII|6 pages
chapter XXIV|5 pages
chapter XXV|5 pages
part |115 pages
Marmaduke Herbert;