London: Printed for F. C and J. Rivington, 1811. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1811:40; Wolff 3100. A novel that explores and contrasts the lives of women of different social ranks, in this instance the Countess of Luxmore and the young Gertrude, who is working her way through life.....
[London:] John Murray, 1843. First edition. NCBEL III, 1378; Block, The English Novel, page 198; not found in Wolff; see Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 178-79. A sympathetic fictional study of an Eastern Russian Jewish family. Elizabeth Eastlake (1809-1893) spent several years in Eastern Russia, which she wrote about in her.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. First American edition, wrappers issue. NCBEL III, 1079. An early and popular novel by Anne Isabella Thackeray (1839-1919), set among the London scenes she was familiar with from childhood and about which her father wrote. The majority of the illustrations signed "G.D.L." are from.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. First edition. Sadleir, Trollope, 57; not in Wolff; NCBEL III, 884; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 201. The final novel in the Palliser series, in which the widowed Duke contends with a number of messy family crises. "The novel's portrait of Palliser in proud old.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1876. First edition in book form, preceded by the parts issue. Sadleir, Trollope, 45; Wolff 6791; NCBEL III, 884; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 511. The penultimate Palliser novel and the first attempt by Trollope at the portrait of a statesman: “I had never yet drawn.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. First English edition, preceded a few months by the American edition. Sadleir, Trollope, 39; Wolff 6775; NCBEL III, 883; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 216. The popular third entry in the Palliser novels, centering on one of Trollope’s most fascinating female characters, Lizzie Eustace (“untruthful.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1864-1865. First edition, parts issue. Sadleir, Trollope, 19; Wolff 6769; NCBEL III, 882; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 103. The second of Trollope’s “Palliser” novels, which chronicles the history of Plantagenet Palliser and his wife, Lady Glencora. This is only the second work by Trollope to.....
London: Virtue & Co., 1869. First edition. Sadleir, Trollope, 30; NCBEL III, 883; not in Wolff; see Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, page 504. The second of the "Palliser" novels, Trollope's series of six political novels which chronicle the history of Plantagenet Palliser and his wife, Lady Glencora.
London: Henry Colburn, 1840. First edition in book form, preceded by the issue in monthly parts. Sadleir 3228a; Wolff 6818a; NCBEL III, 769. One of several novels by Frances Trollope on social issues; this one is about the plight of exploited children in the cotton mills of Manchester, centered on.....