Fiction

Catherine

Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on
March, 2022

Catherine

Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on
March, 2022

A forgotten masterpiece, William Makepeace Thackeray’s first novel, Catherine, has languished in obscurity, in part due to its author’s own unhappiness with it. He had set out to write a satire of the Newgate novels of the 1830’s with their glorification of criminals, but instead turned out a tale of a roguish heroine much in the mould of the equally roguish heroine of Vanity Fair: Becky Sharp. Also like Vanity Fair, this novel provides some wry social commentary through the mouth of its cynical narrator.

Complete Bound Copy of The London Miscellany, vol. 1 (1866).

Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on
December, 2021

To read James Malcolm Rymer's A Mystery in Scarlet in its original publication context, accompanied by other contents of The London Miscellany no. 1-18 (1866), please see the bound copy of that periodical in the collection of the Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.  This copy lacks the series of four promotional color prints titled Rich and Poor and accompanying the serial of that name; these prints are accessible elsewhere in this COVE edition.

Appendix: The London Miscellany, no. 1-18 (1866). Complete, bound copy.

Submitted by Rebecca Nesvet on
November, 2021

To read James Malcolm Rymer's A Mystery in Scarlet in its original publication context, accompanied by other contents of The London Miscellany no. 1-18 (1866), please see the bound copy of that periodical in the collection of the Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.  This copy lacks the series of four promotional color prints titled Rich and Poor and accompanying the serial of that name; these prints are accessible elsewhere in this COVE edition.

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