Author: [KENNEDY (Grace)]:
Title: Dunallan; or Know What You Judge; A Story. Second Edition.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed by W. Oliphant...and Hamilton, Adams & Co...., London, 1825. 3 volumes. 12mo, 182 x 105 mms., pp. [iv], 270 [271 adverts, 272 blank]; [iv], 272; [iv], 220, including half-title in volumes 1 and 2, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spines, red leather labels; a very good set with the armorial bookplate of Anthony Lefroy on the front pastedown end-paper of each volume The novelist Grace Kennedy (1782–1825) published eight novels in a short period before her death, including the present novel. According to the December 1824 edition of The New Evangelical Magazine and Theological Review the work was "in press" to be published as Dunallan or the Methodist Husband in (1824); the sub-title seems to have been changed before the actual publication. The Eclectic Review for 1825 said of it that the author has a "a simple style, a gentle eloquence, and her moral lessons are as superior to Miss Edgeworth's as she is inferior to that popular writer in genius.... The style of Dunallan is simple, chaste, and pleasing." Wolff 3778 (first edition). Raven, James, and Antonia Forster, Peter Garside, Rainer Schöwerling; with the assistance of Stephen Bending, Christopher Skelton-Foord and Karin Wünsche, The English Novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (OUP, 2000). 1825: 48.

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