Francis Baily
was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME
was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from...
Literary Setting
Barbara Hofland
The title-page (like several earlier ones of BH
) quotes Shakespeare
. The novel opens in 1726, with Catherine the first
holding court in Russia after Peter the Great
's death. She had come to...
