The title comes from words spoken by Shakespeare
's Hamlet to Ophelia, in a passage expressing reproach and arguably misogyny. CD
's romantic novels belong to the years of her marriage, and were fostered by...
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Lucy Walford
LW
published The Matchmaker, which was notable, she said, as the last three-volume novel accepted by Mudie's Circulating Library
.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
(15 September 1894): 3
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate, 1910, xi, 317 pp.
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Sir Walter Scott
Fifty years before that, lengths and prices had been more various. Three-volume novels were already standard, but whereas The History of Lady Barton by Elizabeth Griffith
and The Old Maid by Ann Skinn
, both...
