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Jon Duan : a twofold journey with manifold purposes / by the authors of "The Coming k---" and "The Siliad."
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR 4099.B135 .J6 1874
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Don Juan.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901--Humor.
- Great Britain.
- Political satire, English.
- Don Juan (Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron).
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Advertisements
- wood engravings (prints)
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf, v, [1], 94, [4] ix-xxxii pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weldon & Co. 15 Wine Office Court Fleet St., 1874.
- Notes:
- A political satire modelled on Byron's Don Juan.
- By Samuel O. Beeton, A.A. Dowty, and Evelyn D. Jerrold. Cf. BLC; H. Montgomery Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Beeton, p. 140-141. Formerly attributed to Eustace C. Grenville Murray, or to Beeton, "Doughty", and S.R. (or George R.)--Emerson.
- "Spinnings in town": pages 88-94, signed: The Silkworm; author identified as A.A. Dowty in BLC, but perhaps Matilda ("Myra")--Browne, editor of Beeton's The Englishwoman's domestic magazine, for which she wrote a regular column called Spinnings in town, and signed The Silkworm. Cf. S. Freeman, Isabella and Sam, pages 257, 287.
- Front cover illustrator is noted as: "M.Cross"--from lower left hand corner.
- Cited in:
- Sadleir, M. 19th century fiction, 3480
- OCLC:
- 6985933
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