Fortescue (novel)

Fortescue

Title page for Fortescue (1847)
Author	James Sheridan Knowles
Language	English
Publisher	Edward Moxton (London) Harper Brothers (New York)
Publication date	1846
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

Fortescue is an 1846 three-volume novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. ^[1] 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. ^[2] It was serialised in The Sunday Times . It was published in New York by Harper Brothers in 1847.

References

1. The Encyclopaedia of Romantic Literature p.733
2. 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.