So where were we? (Part 4)

To resume:

All of my reviewing threads are absurd, but some are more absurd than others.

In this I include Authors In Depth, not least because the writers who end up being recruited tend to be those whose oeuvres would, on their own, make a ridiculously complicated project—let alone all of them at once.

Be that as it may.

So far my progress in this area looks like this:

Mary Elizabeth Braddon:

– The Trail Of The Serpent (1860)
– The Octoroon; or, The Lily Of Louisiana (1859 / 1861)
– The Black Band; or, The Mysteries Of Midnight (1861 – 1862)
– Lady Lisle (1862)
– The Captain Of The Vulture (1862)
– Ralph The Bailiff, And Other Tales (1862 / 1869)

E. D. E. N. Southworth:

– Retribution; or, The Vale Of Shadows (1850)
– The Deserted Wife (1850)
– The Mother-In-Law; or, The Isle Of Rays (1851)
– Vivia; or, The Secret Of Power (1857)

Frances Trollope:

– The Refugee In America (1832)
– Hargrave; or, The Adventures Of A Man Of Fashion (1843)

Mrs (Mary) Meeke:

– Count St. Blancard; or, The Prejudiced Judge (1795)
– The Abbey Of Clugny (1796)
– Palmira And Ermance (1797)
– Ellesmere (1799)

“Gabrielli” (Elizabeth Meeke):

– The Mysterious Wife (1797)
– The Sicilian (1798)

Margaret Minifie and Susannah Minifie Gunning:

– The Histories Of Lady Frances S—, And Lady Caroline S— (1763)
– Family Pictures (1764)
– The Picture (1766)
– Barford Abbey (1768)

So which of these threads do I intend to continue with?

Don’t be silly: none of them.

Instead I’ve read the second and final novel by someone even more obscure than these ladies—by which means I can fool myself that I have at last ticked something off the list…

 

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