FATHERLESS FANNY

Authors: Reeve, Clara

Categories: Romance

Fiction

Prose

Novel

Year: 1820

Publisher: J. Gleave, 196, Deansgate

Pagination: 419

Dimensions: 21 x 13 cm

Illustrations: Frontispiece (man on bended knee before lady with parasol, each with one hand on a book). iv (horns with music sheets on flowers). between 4 and 5 'MYRTLE GROVE. | (engraving) | A Lady in a very dashing equipage desired to speak to her.' etc.

City: Manchester

Document Type: Book

Language: English

Printer: J. Gleave, 196, Deansgate

Marginalia: Front free endpaper '13/xx | By Clara Reeve (1729-1807) | novelist | 5 plans | ( 1 stained. | £15' (in pencil). Front blank page 'Fanny Sutton | Shillinglee Park (underlined)' (in black ink).

Binding: Burgundy, half calf. Front and back covers marbled board, blind-tooling. SPINE: [gilt-tooled] '(decorative device) | FATHERLESS | FANNY. | (decorative device) | (decorative device) | (decorative device) | (decorative device) | (decorative device) | F.S.'

Edges: Trimmed

Notes:

Full-title: FATHERLESS FANNY ; OR, A YOUNG LADY'S FIRST ENTRANCE INTO LIFE: BEING THE MEMOIRS OF A LITTLE MENDICANT AND HER BENEFACTORS. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE OLD ENGLISH BARON, &c. &c. THIRD EDITION. Summary: p. I title-page. p. ii blank verso. p. iii-iv 'Preface.' p. 1-419. p. 419 printer's imprint. p. 420 'DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES' (notes for placement of title-page, frontispiece, illustrations). J.M.S. Tomkins casts some doubt on Clara Reeve as the supposed author of this work. See 'The Popular Novel in England 1770-1800'.