''Ten Thousand a-Year'' is a novel written by English
barrister
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Samuel Warren. First published in 1841, it enjoyed widespread popularity in the United States and Europe for much of the century.
Background
When first published, the novel was split into three volumes for its United Kingdom release and six volumes for release in the United States. Despite
Edgar Allan Poe
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's critical panning of the book as 'shamefully ill-written' in the November 1841 issue of
Graham's Magazine
''Graham's Magazine'' was a nineteenth-century periodical based in Philadelphia established by George Rex Graham and published from 1840 to 1858. It was alternatively referred to as ''Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine'' (1841–1842, and J ...
, it went on to become one of the most popular novels of the era in both the United States and Europe. New print runs and updated editions were published regularly to the turn of the century.
The story chronicles events in the life of its iconic protagonist
Tittlebat Titmouse and offers in-depth detail of English
common law
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of the time.
''Ten Thousand A Year'' was, in fact, first published in the Edinburgh Magazine in installments in 1839. The first installment appearing in October of that year at page 505 of No. CCLXXXVIII.
Characters
It has been said that the characters from the novel listed in the first column of the table below represent the real persons listed in the second column of that table.
Glanville Williams
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. Learning the Law. Eleventh Edition. Steven. 1982. Page 229.
References
External links
Ten Thousand a-Year at Project GutenbergDigitized Ten Thousand a-Year at Google Books
1841 British novels
William Blackwood books
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