Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph.

Extracted from her own journal, and now first published.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Sheridan, Frances Chamberlaine, 1724-1766.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : R. and J. Dodsley, 1761-67.
Notes:Vols. 1-3 "In three volumes," 2nd ed., 1761. Vols. 4-5 have title: Conclusion of the memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, as prepared for the press by the late editor of the former part. London, J. Dodsley, 1767.

In late eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, spines gilt with double labels.

First edition of all five volumes, perhaps the most successful novel by an Irishwoman of the century. Its many eighteenth-century editions, English and Irish, must have been avidly read, and the author's granddaughter, Alicia LeFanu, recommended that the novel be read "in solitude..." for the mind hangs suspended in breathless anxiety upon the catastrophe." A modern editor describes the novel "at the center of many important currents in the eighteenth-century novel. It is a sentimental classic, a love story of great moral complexity, and also a probing example of conduct-book fiction." The novel's composition was encouraged by Samuel Richardson, and it is dedicated to him. The two volumes of the Conclusion were published posthumously, after Mrs. Sheridan's death in 1766. - Loeber, Guide to Irish Fiction; Raven, British Fiction 1750-1770.

Physical description: 5 volumes ; 18 cm.

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LO 12637 /1
Manuscripts Reading Room
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Librarian's Office Vol. I
LO 12637 /2
Manuscripts Reading Room
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Librarian's Office Vol. II
LO 12637 /3
Manuscripts Reading Room
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Librarian's Office Vol. III
LO 12637 /4
Manuscripts Reading Room
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Librarian's Office Vol. IV
LO 12637 /5
Manuscripts Reading Room
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Librarian's Office Vol. V