New findings: addendum to the Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900 for the period between 1674 and 1830.

Loeber, Rolf ; Loeber, Magda

The publication of the Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900 (Four Courts Press, 1996) brought to a necessary but artificial and premature halt the documenting of two and a half centuries of Irish prose fiction. Here, new discoveries made by the authors, or brought to their attention, are recorded for a period ending, like this special issue, in 1830 (so leaving a substantial number of later items for subsequent publication elsewhere). The list follows the format of the Guide, and where possible presents a summary of the contents of the volumes recorded.

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In several ways a volume such as The Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900 can be classed as an ongoing project because knowledge about fiction is just as limited as the compilers' extent of travels, information kindly provided by others, and chance findings. (1) When working on the volume, we realized that there never would be a natural end to the work and that, once the book was published, there would be other books and manuscripts coming to our attention. At the completion of the Guide to Irish Fiction in 2006, we knew that the years of discovery of undocumented Irish fiction had to be called to an artificial, and presumably premature, halt. The vagaries of discovery were usually unpredictable in that the walking into yet another antiquarian bookshop or a message of a friend or a dealer might precede the identification of a new author or the presentation of another anonymous literary work. Thus, the excitement of discovery, although at a lower pace, continued after the Guide had gone to press. This article chronicles the new discoveries, and in accord with the purport of this special issue, is restricted to books published before 1830, leaving aside the substantial number of discoveries of a later date. The paper presents a brief essay on the new finds and is followed by a list of the individual novels. The list follows the format of the Guide, and where possible presents a summary of the contents. Anonymous works are listed first in alphabetical order, and are followed by 'new' authors and their works. The reader is referred to the Guide for abbreviations used in the Addendum. (2) We have not included here corrections and amendments to the volumes listed in the Guide.

Not surprisingly, there is little coherence among the newly identified fiction, other than some themes. One of the remarkable features of the addendum is the large number of unidentified anonymous novels--16 in all--that were advertised in Dublin in 1774 in A complete catalogue of modern books. Examples are Adventures of devil Dick, and the History of the countess of Gyllemberg. Our searches in the standard reference guides for the late eighteenth century did not produce any evidence of their publication in Britain or elsewhere in Ireland. Their varied range of prices would suggest that the volumes were not the invention of the unknown author of A complete catalogue of modern books, and that the volumes need to be added to other undocumented volumes of which there are no known copies. As experience has taught us, a proportion of unknown copies do emerge over time. The problem, however, about the origins and contents remains in that the volumes may or may not have Irish significance. However, the fact that British imprints are unknown makes it more likely that many of the volumes were produced, and possibly written, in Ireland. Unfortunately, A complete catalogue does not provide the name of the Dublin publisher(s).

Somewhat clearer is a range of children's fiction published in a few provincial towns in Ireland prior to 1830. These include children's books which appeared in Dundalk and Newry. The Dundalk books constituted a series published by Joseph Parks and were advertised as Parks's Juvenile Library. Parks was a publisher and bookseller who published a variety of works between 1797 and 1819. However, some of the books in the series were reprints, including The hermit, and the wandering infants (first published in London by Newberry in 1794 under the title The hermit of the forest, and the wandering infants, and published in Boston prior to 1795). (3) In addition, The visit: or, history of master Henry and Miss Louisa Bountiful, founded on facts. An entirely new edition, was published in London by Howard & Evans in about 1805. (4) All Parks's children's fiction titles are anonymous, are not set in Ireland and are impossible to ascribe to any Irish author. Thus, it remains uncertain whether the works of small fiction published by Parks listed are all original works or reprints. This uncertainty is compounded by the fact that the survivability of small books, whether original or reprint, is relatively poor.

The addendum contains several highly unusual works of fiction. For instance, we had not realized that Mrs Mary Delany had written during her long stay in Ireland a didactic work for young people, entitled Marianna, which remained unpublished. A remarkable novel, Montgomery; or, the West-Indian adventurer, ascribed without further identification to 'A gentleman resident in the West-Indies', was published in Jamaica in 1812 and has Irish contents. Another, probably pornographic novel, entitled La musae d'un voluptuare ou l'histoire et les aventures de chevalier Henri Loveall, en Angleterre, Irlond et Galles was published in London before 1823, but so far no copy has been identified. Also, a remarkable satire is Adam Ferguson's The history of Rachel, which consists of a spoof prospectus for a book showing how Paddy, an Irish attorney, tried to hoodwink Rachel into allowing him to take control of her Edinburgh affairs.

The following list, like our prior work, is preliminary, and awaits future discoveries. We appreciate if you could let us know about works of fiction that have escaped our notice.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Anne Mullin Burnham for her assistance and advice.

CATALOGUE

ANONYMOUS BOOKS

ADD Anon. 1 Adventures of devil Dick.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE Irish edn adv. in 1774 and sold at 2s. 2d. (A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 1).

COMMENTARY Not in ESTC or Raven, Raven 2, or Garside, and no London edn identified [RL].

ADD Anon. 2 Adventures of Pompey the Little.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE [Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 1

COMMENTARY Irish edn adv. in 1774 and sold at 2s. 2d. Not ESTC or Raven, Raven 2, and Garside, and no London edn identified. Probably a take off or error for The history of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry which appeared in London and Dublin in 1751 [[Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 1; RL].

ADD Anon. 3 Adventures of Richard Swallow, or memoirs of a parasite.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE [Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 1.

COMMENTARY Irish edn adv. in 1774 and sold at 2s. 8 1/2d. Not in ESTC or Raven, Raven 2, or Garside, and no London edn [[Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 1; RL].

ADD Anon. 4 The contrast: or, poverty and riches. With two fragments.

+ Dundalk: Printed by Joseph Parks [between 1797 and 1819] (ill.; Parks's Juvenile Library).

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION L, O.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. 28pp in blue wrappers, sold at 2p.; 10.5cm [ML].

ADD Anon. 5 History of Charles Munson; or, the truant reclaimed.

+ Dundalk: Printed by Joseph Parks, [between 1797 and 1819] (ill.; Parks's Juvenile Library).

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION O.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. Price 2d. Main story 28pp. total booklet 31pp; 10.5cm. Charles Munson is the only son of a rich gentleman. He is spoiled by his parents and does not go to school. When another boy comes to visit, the parents see that they may have made a mistake and tell him that in a few days he will be sent to school. He thinks up all kinds of mischief, but all his follies go awry. He returns home in a high fever. He renounces his follies [ML].

ADD Anon. 6 History of little Ann. With a fragment.

+ Dundalk: Printed by Joseph Parks, [between 1797 and 1819] (ill.; Parks's Juvenile Library).

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION L, O.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. 28pp sold at 2d. in blue wrappers. Main story 28pp. total booklet 31pp; 10.5cm. Set in Sussex, Ann is beloved by her parents and very spoiled ... She is taken by the gypsies. She learns how to beg and at a fair she encounters her friend Mary. She is reunited with her parents and promises to be good and obedient from then on [ML].

ADD Anon. 7 History of Miss Stanhope and Miss Boothby.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE [Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 15.

COMMENTARY Irish edn adv. in 1774 and sold at 2s. 8 1/2d. Not in ESTC or Raven and Raven 2, and no London edn [[Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 15; RL].

ADD Anon. 8 History of the countess of Gyllemberg.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE [Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 14.

COMMENTARY Irish edn adv. in 1774. Not in ESTC, Raven, Raven 2, or Garside; no copy identified [[Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 14; RL].

ADD Anon. 9 Julia's letters to Ovid.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE [Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 16].

COMMENTARY Irish edn adv. in 1774 and sold at 2s. 2d. Not ESTC or Raven, Raven 2, or Garside; no known London edn [[Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 16; RL].

ADD Anon. 10 La musae d'un voluptuare ou l'histoire et les aventures de chevalier Henri Loveall, en Angleterre, Irlond et Galles. London: William Dugdale [1822 or earlier].

SOURCE Advertised on the cover of Lord Byron's The prisoner of Chillon in a pirated edition published in London in 1822 by William Dugdale among books of pornography (W. St Clair, The reading nation in the romantic period (Cambridge, 2004), p. 326, Figure 17). COMMENTARY Not in Garside. Its sale price of 11. 10s. 6d. suggests that this was a substantial book. No copy located, nor has a French original been identified [W. St Clair, The reading nation in the romantic period (Cambridge, 2004), p. 326, Figure 17; RL].

ADD Anon. 11 Letters between Fidelia and Harriet.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE [Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 18.

COMMENTARY Irish edn adv. in 1774 and sold at 2s. 8 1/2 d. Not in ESTC, Raven and Raven 2, in Garside; no known London edn [RL].

ADD Anon. 12 Loves and adventures of Leander and Melissa.

[Dublin?]: [publisher?], [1774 or earlier].

SOURCE [Anon.], A complete catalogue of modern books (Dublin, 1774), p. 18.

COMMENTARY Irish edn adv. in 1774 and sold at 1s. 1d. Not ESTC, Raven, Raven 2, and Garside; no known London edn [RL].

ADD Anon. 13 The present; or, child's pleasing companion.

+ Dundalk: Printed by Joseph Parks [between 1797 and 1819] (ill.; Parks's Juvenile Library).

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION L, O.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. Price 2d. in blue wrappers. Main story 'History of Tommy Darnley' 16pp; 10.5cm. total booklet 30pp. No Irish content. About a boy who strikes his dog and as a consequence is made to learn how to behave better; in so doing he finds his mother loves him more (6pp.). Next story in vol. is 'the history of Mrs Frances Maria'. Set in France where an 11-year-old girl is left an orphan with the care of her 18-month old brother. She dies while protecting her brother from wolves [ML].

ADD Anon. 14 The schoolmistress; or, instructive and entertaining conversations between a teacher and her scholars.

Dublin: Beatham [sic] & Gardiner, 1824.

SOURCE Cambridge Univ. cat.; COPAC. LOCATION L, C.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. This publication should not be confused with Mrs Hunter's The schoolmistress (London, 1811, 2 vols; Garside 1811: 46) [RL].

ADD Anon. 15 Travels of the bible; or, advantages of early piety. With a hymn.

+ Dundalk: Printed by Joseph Parks, [between 1797 and 1819] (ill.; Parks's Juvenile Library).

SOURCE OCLC. LOCATION O.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. Price 2d. 31pp; 10.5cm. Mr and Mrs Moore assist those in need, and their relative Mr Brown takes back to London a son of the deserving poor. He sends him to evening school. As a farewell present Mr and Mrs Moore had given him a bible. After Henry's early death, the bible is given to a young boy who loses it. It is found by a poor woman, who prizes it very much. She later gives it to a little girl who is initially not pleased with the gift; however, she comes to love it and improves her behavior. The book then becomes the property of a poor old man who would not part with it even to buy food. He encounters a benefactor and lives a happy life until a ripe old age [ML].

ADD Anon. 16 The waggon load of money: A new-invented pretty book: Appointed to be read, by his excellency Peter Pippan, king of the good boys.

Newry: Printed by R. Moffet, Sugar-Island, 1800

SOURCE OCLC.

COMMENTARY Juvenile fiction. Not in Garside. 31pp. COPAC notes an undated York edn of a chapbook, which probably refers to the same book. Its date appears to be about 1820 [OCLC].

BODIN, Felix. Attributed author, but the Duchesse de Duras has also been mentioned as the author of the following book. SOURCE COPAC. ADD B1 [Anon.], Eveline.

Paris: Ladvocat, 1824.

SOURCE Robertshaw cat.109/152. LOCATION L.

COMMENTARY Somewhat morbid tale of Eveline, a sensitive young woman of Irish descent, who lives in France, is unhappy in love and dies young. The profits of the sale of this book were intended to benefit a charity established by the Duc de Chartres [Robertshaw cat. 109/152].

COX, Joseph, d. 1760. He was High Constable of Blackheath and arrested McDaniel. SOURCE de Burca cat. 79/98.

ADD C1 A faithful narrative of the most wicked and inhuman transactions of that bloody-minded gang of thief-takers, alias thief-makers, Macdaniel, Berry, Salmon, Eagan, alias Gahagan; (with a curious print of Macdaniel) as also of that notorious accomplice of theirs, Mary Jones, and others. Shewing the diabolical arts by them practiced, to get innocent persons convicted for robberies, and to share amongst themselves the rewards paid for such convictions. By what stroke of providence it was that the compiler of this narrative became acquainted with this mystery of iniquity. The unwearied diligence by him made use of to get to the bottom of it. The manner of his counteracting those worst of villains. Also, the informations the author this narrative received relative to the affair of Kidden, who was falsely accused, convicted, and executed, Feb. 4, 1756. His searching this, at that time clouded in villany, to its very source. The means made use of to bring the principal actress in this most horrid scene, Mary Jones, to justice. Her commitment, &c. for the willful murder of John Kidden. The whole being interspersed with divers other accounts of a similar nature, and which cannot but astonish every one who considers them (by Joseph Cox).

+ London: Joseph Cox, 1756.

SOURCE COPAC; ESTC t69841. LOCATION L, Dt. Dublin: Powell, [1756].

SOURCE ESTC t69841. LOCATION Manchester.

COMMENTARY Stephen McDaniel (fl. 1741-1755), thief-taker, was born in Ireland. The stories are set in England; although several of the thieves carry Irish names, there is no reference to their being Irish [de Burca cat.79/98; ML].

DELANY, Mary (nee Granville), b. 1700, Coulston, Wiltshire, d. 1788, Windsor. Artist and author, she was the daughter of English parents, Bernard and Mary Granville. Her father was the younger brother of Lord Lansdowne. Following an unhappy marriage and the death of her husband, Alexander Pendarves, M.P., she paid short visits to Ireland in 1731 and 1733, In 1743 she married Dr Patrick Delany, a senior fellow at TCD, in London. Subsequently, the couple lived principally at a villa, Delville, outside Dublin, where she and her husband created a small romantic garden, but also resided at Hollymount, Co. Down. She excelled in her designs of flowers, which were incorporated in her embroidery and paper collages. She was an avid letter writer, and left a manuscript story (see below), which she illustrated with her characteristic pen drawings, similar to her drawings of country estates and gardens (in the NGI). After the death of Dr Delany in 1768, she permanently settled in England, where she was buried in 1788 at St James's, Piccadilly, London. SOURCE DIB: M. Laird & A. Weisberg-Roberts, Mrs Delany & her circle (New Haven, 2009).

ADD D1. Marianna (by [Mrs Delany]).

SOURCE Manuscript. LOCATION Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Published in M. Laird & A. Weisberg-Roberts, Mrs Delany & her circle (New Haven, 2009), pp. 250-61.

COMMENTARY Two copies of the manuscript survive, and the following is a summary of the earliest version (1759), written during her second marriage, when presumably living in Ireland. The manuscript is enhanced by four of her illustrations. The story consists of didactic fiction presumably written for young people, set in an unidentified country. Leontin and Honoria enjoy a splendid fortune and mutual happiness. They have one daughter, Marianna, on whom they shower all their care. The parents are uncertain about how to bring up Marianna and ask a neighbour, Hermilia, whose son, Bellario, is abroad, for advice. After observing Marianna, Hermilia can find only one fault: occasional disobedience. This disobedience gets Marianna into trouble when she crosses a stile and goes into the woods, which had been forbidden by her parents. She is seized by gypsies, who demand full obedience from her and force her to travel with them and beg. Another stolen girl is Helena, and the two of them become secret friends. After two years the gypsy group happens to visit the estate of Marianna's parents, where Marianna cries out and the captive girls are rescued. Helena stays with Marianna as her servant, and Marianna's parents forgive her for her disobedience. All goes well until Marianna once again disobeys her parents and leaves the vicinity of her home, being chased by a bull and ending up on a rocky coast. Some rough sailors take her on board ship where a young gentleman makes sure that she is attended to properly. When they come into port, he pleads with Marianna to stay with his mother in order to recover from her fright. This young man's mother is Hermilia. In this manner Marianna is once again reunited with her parents. Bellario admits to his mother that he would like to marry Marianna. Initially, Marianna feels that she is not worthy because of the pain she has caused her parents and friends but eventually agrees to marry Bellario. They lead a happy life, built on the basis of true religion. SOURCE M. Loeber.

DONALDSON, Joseph. The author was a soldier, probably of Scottish descent. He was also the author (under the pseudonym of 'A soldier') of Recollections of an eventful life chiefly passed in the army (Glasgow, 1825), and The war in the peninsula: a continuation of The recollections of an eventful life (Glasgow, 1825). SOURCES COPAC; RL.

ADD D1 Scenes and sketches of a soldier's life in Ireland (by the author of 'Recollections of an eventful life', etc.). + Edinburgh: William Tate; London: Charles Tate; Dublin: W. Curry Jun. & Co.; Glasgow: Robertson & Atkinson, 1826.

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION AC, C.

COMMENTARY Not in COPAC. There must have been an earlier edition (see above), perhaps in a periodical, but this has not been located. The narrator's regiment returns from the Iberian peninsula in 1814 and is sent to Ireland. One of his comrades, Dennis, is Irish, and looking forward to poteen. They arrive in Cork where he is first billeted with a friendly couple. The hostess sings for them and brings everyone to tears. The regiment then march to Fermoy. On the way he hears keening. The funeral procession is very small because the dead person had been an informer. They are initially billeted in a cabin filled with smoke and animals. They decline this accommodation. Eventually they are quartered in W. [Wexford] which used to be a rebellion headquarter in 1798. However, the populace is very kind to the soldiers. The narrator learns much about the rebellion, but from a strictly protestant point of view. Later on he meets an intelligent catholic gentleman who gives him the other point of view. Talk about religion and politics. Relates what happens if someone dies of an infectious disease, i.e., whitewashing the walls. After their peasant stay in W., they are moved to K. where the populace was not disposed to be friendly. Part of their duty is to help the local constabulary in raids. Description of their commanders, good and bad. Story of a girl seduced by an unfaithful lover. Eventually she dies in a shipwreck, thereby escaping the censure of the world. The narrator's father dies and he has to try and make sense of the business. However he is very bad at it and eventually becomes a soldier once again [ML; RL].

FERGUSON, Adam, possible author of the following work. AF was the putative author of 'The history of the proceedings in the case of Margaret, commonly called Peg, only lawful sister to John Bull, Esq.' SOURCE C.R. Johnson cat. 51/179.

ADD F1 The history of Rachel, commonly called Auld Reikie, eldest daughter of sister Peg (by the author of 'The history of Margaret, commonly called sister Peg').

[Edinburgh]: [n.p.], [1761].

SOURCE C.R. Johnson cat. 51/179 (prospectus); ESTC t10057; COPAC. LOCATION Unclear.

COMMENTARY This is a spoof prospectus giving the outlines of the story of a book intended to be published. Showing how Paddy, an Irish attorney, tries to hoodwink Rachel into allowing him to take control of her affairs. Rachel stands for Edinburgh; the book is a satire on the Edinburgh parliamentary election of 1761. The book was not published [C.R. Johnson cat. 51/179].

FITZGIBBON, John, Earl of Clare, b. 1748, d. 1802. See DIB for his biography, which does not mention the following attribution. SOURCE DIB.

ADD F2 [Anon.], No Union! But unite and fall. By Paddy Whack, of Dyott Street, London; in a Loving Letter to his Mother, Sheelah of Dame-Street, Dublin.

London and Dublin, 1799, 2nd edn.

SOURCE ESTC t81615. LOCATION L.

COMMENTARY Political satire [ESTC].

FRIZELLE, Capt.--. Author is identified in the catalogue of the Tyrrell Circulating Library (Dublin). Members of the Frizell ]sic] family were established in Munster and subsequently were scattered in Ireland. A Capt. Frizelle, an amateur actor, was an ancestor of William John FitzPatrick, the author of The life of Charles Lever (London, 1879), p. 260. The following book has also been attributed to George Robert Gleig.

SOURCE British Fiction; COPAC; E. MacLysaght, The surnames of Ireland (Dublin, 1973), p. 115; RL.

ADD F3 The subaltern's log book: Including anecdotes of well known military characters [anon.] (dedicated to Conrad Vetter).

+ London: James Ridgway, 1828, 2 vols.

SOURCE Garside 1828:13; British Fiction. LOCATION Corvey CME 3-628-48686-6, C, L.

COMMENTARY Sometimes erroneously attributed to George Robert Gleig. Written in the first person as a way to occupy time while serving in the army where the subaltern's duties were light. His father has properties in Co. Wexford. One chapter set in Ireland is called 'The heiress hunting' and involves a Miss Keen who turns out to be a charlatan. A trip from Waterford to Dublin is described and mention is made of the Irish rebellion of 1798 and events at Enniscorthy and Vinegar Hill, in Co. Wexford. The subaltern is sent to India and on his return he visits his father in Ireland, where he works at a recruiting station. Subsequently, he returns to England and again sees service in India [Garside 1828:13; ML].

'A GENTLEMAN RESIDENT IN THE WEST-INDIES'

ADD G1 Montgomery; or, the West-Indian adventurer. A novel (by 'A gentleman resident in the West-Indies').

+ Jamaica: Printed at the Office of the Kingston Chronicle, 1812, 3 vols.

SOURCE Garside 1812:9. LOCATION Corvey CME 3-628-48273-9, L.

COMMENTARY 'To the reader' is dated from Jamaica, 1811. Adv. in the Newry Register of July-Aug. 1815 (i, p. 291). A copy mentioned in OCLC mentions ownership of Mary Milligan, who may have been Irish. Reviewed in the Monthly Review (2nd ser. 76, Jan. 1815, pp. 102-2). Whereas Montgomery is a Scottish officer, Col. O'Hara is Irish, and one O'Dogherty is probably Irish [Garside 1812:9; British Fiction; RL]. HEAD, Richard. See Guide to Irish Fiction for a brief biography.

ADD H1 Jackson's recantation, or, the life and death of the notorious high-way-man, now hanging in chains at Hampstead. Delivered to a friend, a little before execution; wherein is truly discovered the whole mystery of that wicked and fatal profession of padding on the road.

London: Printed for T.B., 1674.

SOURCE ESTC r19420. LOCATION L, O.

COMMENTARY 40pp. A good account of the life of a professional thief, narrated in the first person, but in fact by Richard Head [Ximenes List M18/108].

'HIMSELF'.

ADD H2 Love and heroism; or, the wonderful adventures, and extraordinary escapes, of an Irish rebel officer. Exhibiting the bravery of a young soldier, the passion of an ardent lover, and the skill of an intrepid commander; in travels in America, Spain and Ireland, written by himself.

+ London: Printed by E. Thomas, 1804 (ill.).

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION C, O.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside; 38pp; price 6d. The officer's father is from the county of Wexford. His mother dies when he is 9. He is sent to school and his father remarries. The stepmother has no warm feelings for him. Mr Clinton, a relative takes him with him to America. He lands near Quebec and visits Mr Clinton's commander-in-chief, and is accepted into the army. He is taken prisoner and later their troop is encircled by Indians. The Indians begin to kill their prey. He escapes but encounters the French and is lodged in prison in Quebec. After he is released he goes to Spain where he has some relatives. In Spain he falls in love with Elvira, whom her father had destined for the cloister. He helps her escape from the cloister but they are stopped by her father. In the ensuing scuffle Elvira is wounded by a bullet and dies. He returns to Ireland. In the meantime his father has died and because of debts the estate is now in the hands of a stranger. He becomes a United Irishman and takes part in the rebellion. He is taken prisoner and moved to Ross. Afterwards he goes to Hamburg to live in peace [ML].

'HIS LORDSHIP'S CHAPLAIN', pseud.

ADD H3 Injured innocence, or, virtue in distress: an affecting narrative, founded on facts. Containing the history of Miss Adams, and Lord Whateley (by 'his Lordship's chaplain').

Dublin: Printed by Bart. Corcoran, for Robert Barker, an unfortunate blindman of whom it may be had, 1780.

SOURCE ESTC t188991. LOCATION D.

COMMENTARY 40pp [ESTC].

KELLY, Revd Thomas, b. Kellyville, near Athy (Co. Kildare) 1769, d. Dublin 1855. See Guide to Irish Fiction for his biography and other work.

ADD K1 [Anon.], Emancipation: A dialogue.

Dublin printed: London reprinted, 1821.

SOURCE OCLC. LOCATION L.

London: Reprinted for J. Booker, 1821.

SOURCE OCLC. LOCATION C.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. London edn: 48pp [OCLC].

NEILSON, Revd William, b. Rademon, Kilmore (Co. Down) 1774, d. 1821. He was a Presbyterian minister at Dundalk, and was the primary authority for the long-defunct Gaelic dialect of south-east Ulster. He preached in Irish. SOURCE Fenning cat. 231/181; Allibone Suppl., ii, p. 1407; COPAC; DIB.

ADD N1 An introduction to the Irish language. In three parts. I. An original and comprehensive grammar. IL Familiar phrases and dialogues. IIL Extracts from Irish books and manuscripts, in the original character. With copious tables of the contractions.

Dublin: P. Wogan, 1808 (dedicated to Philip Earl of Hardwicke; subscribers' list [mostly Co. Louth, Co. Down]).

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION AC, C.

Achill: Printed at the "Mission Press", 1843.

SOURCE Fenning cat. 231/181.

COMMENTARY Contains stories. Used as a text-book by such scholars as Douglas Hyde and Eoin Mac Neill, co-founders of the Gaelic League [RL; Fenning cat. 231/181].

NICHOL, Robert. Attributed author.

ADD N2 [Anon.], The life and adventures of David Dobbinson. Written by himself.

London: Baldwin, Craddock & Joy; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1824 (ill. [Thomas Berwick]).

SOURCE Bennett cat. 51/93; http://www.archive.org/details/life adventuresof00dobbiala. LOCATION AC, C, O.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. Author identified from a handwritten note on the title page. An adventure story, told in the first-person, by an Irishman, David Dobbinson, who flees Ireland by ship after an encounter with the law. The ship goes to the Caribbean, where he is left on shore, suffering from yellow fever. After he recovers, he has various adventures at sea, until he is shipwrecked on an unknown coast (probably the east side of Africa). He is the only survivor with a dog. He starts to repair the ship and make it his home and goes hunting frequently. He meets a great variety of wild animals, such as hippopotami, tigers, leopards, crocodiles, large serpents and buffalos. His dog is pregnant and he breeds a large pack to help him with the daily hunt. He is attacked by 'Indians' and rescues a young Indian maiden whom he marries. They have three children. They tame an elephant to assist with the htmt. The wife's brother comes to find her and stays in the little colony. After a while they build a boat, which takes them via Zanzibar to the Cape. From there they sail to England, where they sell ivory and diamonds. He visits Ireland, but finds that he is still wanted. He buys a boat and takes his extended family back to Happy Land, where they form a contented colony [ML].

PARSONS, Mrs Eliza, d. Leystone, near London 1811. She came from a well-to-do family in Plymouth, and married a Devon merchant who died in about 1790, and left her destitute with eight surviving children, which set her to earn a living by writing. She wrote nineteen multi-volume novels. She published mostly with the Minerva Press; several of her novels were also published in Ireland, but nothing is known about her possible Irish connections or her possible visit to Ireland.

SOURCE Blain, pp. 834-5.

ADD P1 Lucy: A novel (by Mrs Parsons).

London: William Lane, 1794, 3 vols.

SOURCE ESTC t067332; Block, p. 189; Blakey, p. 165; Garside, 1794: 42. LOCATION CtY, CSmH, NNU.

COMMENTARY. The novel begins in 'a miserable little cabin ... in the North of Ireland, in a dreary and almost uninhabited spot, encompassed with bogs, five miles from a small village, and four from the sea coast ...' and proceeds to a ruined castle on the desolate Irish coast. Here a man and a wife who are squatting in the ruins adopt an infant girl whom they believe had been brought to the sea to be drowned. This is the novel's heroine. Later, left an orphan at the age of sixteen by both her adoptive parents, she lives alone and explores the mysteries and hidden passages of the castle. The novel continues with flashbacks to the history of Ireland at the time of Cromwell's invasion. Throughout, the 'weakness and wickedness' and sexual predatoriness of man is an underlying theme [Johnson cat. 52/22].

PILKINGTON, Mrs Mary

ADD P2 Violet Vale, or, Saturday night (by Mrs Pilkington).

Dublin: Printed by William Watson, 1805.

SOURCE COPAC. LOCATION L.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside. No known London edn [RL].

POTTER, John, ft. 1754, d. 1804. Poet, dramatist and novelist, who lived in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, but left during the rebellion of 1798 [Johnson, cat. 49/7].

ADD P3 The history and adventures of Arthur O'Bradley (by John Potter).

London: T. Becket & P. A. de Hondt, 1769, 2 vols.

SOURCE Johnson cat. 49/7; Raven, 1324; ESTC t70712. LOCATION L, CtY.

SHARMAN, John, b. 1748, d. 1822.

According to the title page of the 2nd edn of the following book JS was teacher of astronomy and geography and sold the following book at No. 22 Dawson Street, Dublin. SOURCE COPAC; Allibone Suppl., ii, p. 2055.

ADD $1 Astronomical dialogues for the instruction of youth (by John Sharman).

Dublin: printed by John Jones, 1810.

SOURCE Allibone Suppl., ii, p. 2055 (which probably mistakenly notes a 1801 edn; COPAC. LOCATION Liverpool.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside; 76pp [COPAC; RL].

THORN, Romaine Joseph. A native of Bristol who wrote seven volumes of poems. SOURCE Allibone Suppl., iii, p. 2407.

ADD T1 The spy glass; or, a peep at a few well known characters, residing not a thousand leagues from Cork.

Cork: Printed by John Bolster, 1817.

SOURCE Cambridge Univ. cat. LOCATION C.

COMMENTARY Not in Garside [RL].

NOTES

(1.) Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber, with Anne Mullin Burnham, A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).

(2.) The only exception is AC, which stands for authors' collection.

(3.) ESTC.

(4.) COPAC.