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Cradock Nowell
''Cradock Nowell: a tale of the New Forest'' is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the suspicious death of Cradock's twin brother Clayton. It was Blackmore's second novel, and the novel he wrote prior to his most famous work ''Lorna Doone''. Title and writing ''Cradock Nowell'' was Blackmore's second novel, following the publication of ''Clara Vaughan'' in 1864. Blackmore adopted the name "Cradock Nowell" from a former owner of Nottage Court in Glamorganshire – the house where Blackmore spent some of his childhood."s:Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (DNB01), Blackmore, Richard Doddridge" entry in ''Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement'' The name is conspicuous on a tablet in the church of Newton, Bridgend, Newton Nottage, which Blackmore said he used to gaze at as a child during the sermon. The main setti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three-volume Novel
The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern novel as a form of popular literature in Western culture. History An 1885 cartoon from the magazine ''Punch'', mocking the clichéd language attributed to three-volume novels Three-volume novels began to be produced by the Edinburgh-based publisher Archibald Constable in the early 19th century. Constable was one of the most significant publishers of the 1820s and made a success of publishing expensive, three-volume editions of the works of Walter Scott; the first was Scott's historical novel ''Kenilworth'', published in 1821, at what became the standard price for the next seventy years. rchibald Constable published Ivanhoe in 3 volumes in 1820, but also, T. Egerton had been publishing the works of Jane Austen in 3 volumes 10 years earlier, Sense and Sensibility in 1811 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
