| Author | James Sheridan Knowles |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Edward Moxton (London) Harper Brothers (New York) |
| Publication date | 1846 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type |
Fortescue is an 1846 three-volume novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. He had for many years been a leading West End playwright, but by this stage his career was in gradual decline and he turned to novel-writing. It is set in Cork where Knowles was born and raised. The New Monthly Magazine review believed that the novel may have been semi-autobiographical. It was serialised in The Sunday Times. It was published in New York by Harper Brothers in 1847.
References
- The Encyclopaedia of Romantic Literature p.733
- Murphy p.258
Bibliography
- Burwick, Frederick Goslee, Nancy Moore & Hoeveler Diane Long . The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
- Law, Graham. Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press. Springer, 2000.
- Murphy, James H. Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. Oxford University Press, 2011.
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