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| Author | Richard Cumberland |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Lackington, Allen, & Co. |
| Publication date | 1809 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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John de Lancaster is a three volume novel by the British writer Richard Cumberland, first published in 1809. Cumberland, better known as a playwright, also produced three novels of which this was the last. It was published in London by Lackington, Allen, & Co. of Finsbury Square. Walter Scott wrote a review of the novel in the Quarterly Review. It was one of his final works, and two years later he died and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
References
- Day & Lynch p.379
- The English Novel, 1770-1829 p.294
- Williams p.152
Bibliography
- Day, Gary & Lynch, Jack. The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
- Garside, Peter, Raven, James & Schöwerling, Rainer. The English Novel, 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Watson, George. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660–1800. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
- Williams, Ioan (ed.) Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction. Routledge, 2010.
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| Novels | John de Lancaster (1809) | |
| Other | Portrait of Richard Cumberland (c.1776) | |
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