The Critical Review reported that this book was written upon the same plan with the Adventures of a Guinea, which the writer has ingeniously imitated.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
(October 1794): 99
(The reference is to Charles Johnstone
's...
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Vernon Lee
The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian
, which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artistGuido Reni