Fortescue (novel) explained

Fortescue
Author:	James Sheridan Knowles
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Publisher:	Edward Moxton (London) Harper Brothers (New York)
Release Date:	1846
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.

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.

Notes and References

1. The Encyclopaedia of Romantic Literature p.733
2. Murphy p.258