ABSTRACT

314The Adventure of the Black Lady’ was first published in the 1698 edition of The Histories and Novels, printed by Samuel Briscoe. In the ‘Advertisement to the Reader’, after discussing The Court of the King of Bantam’, the author, probably Charles Gildon, claimed of The Nun’ and The Adventure of the Black Lady’: ‘I need not say any thing of the other Two, they evidently confessing their admirable Author.’