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viii, 219, [1]p; viii, 251, [1]p. 12mo. Full contemporary calf, raised gilt banded spines, red morocco labels; crack to top of joints vol. I, heads of spines worn. Name clipped from head of preliminary blank both vols. ESTC T57338, BL, National Trust, Cambridge; Estonia; 14 copies in America. In 1770 Charles Jenner, 1736-1774, published anonymously his only novel, The Placid Man, or Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville. This attained considerable success, and was republished with his name in 1773. He published, in 1767, a volume of sketches and essays entitled Letters from Altamont to his Friend in the Country, and two volumes of miscellaneous papers, entitled Letters from Lothario to Penelope, in 1771. The work is interesting in its extended comments on contemporary writing and novelists. For Jenner, all contemporary novelists fall into one of two schools of influence: Richardson or Fielding. The superior camp is that of 'the ingenious Mr. Henry Fielding, whose memory ought to be as dear to every novel-writer, as his authority ought to be respected'. There is also a clear reference to Laurence Sterne: 'We find even men of genius stretching their imagination to the very verge of folly, for something new and uncommon. Where a writer happens to have a natural and inexhaustible fund of humour, he may very often succeed in his design of making his readers laugh, by some trick or other, which, in another man, would have been insupportable: a black page, a white page, or a marble page, has done it'. A copy is listed in the Godmersham Park library catalogue of books owned by Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight. Comparisons have been made between Jenner's discussions on the role of novels, and Austen's in Northanger Abbey. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 81803
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