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Issue Details: First known date: 1877-1893... 1877-1893 Seaside Library
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This hugely successful mass-market fiction series appeared in both quarto and pocket editions from 1877 until the early years of the twentieth century.

Includes

477
y separately published work icon Affinities : A Romance of To-Day Rosa Praed , London : Richard Bentley , 1885 Z864191 1885 single work novel

'Praed’s interest in the relationship between culture and vampiric possession finds its most extensive and complex treatment in Affinities, which presents a portrait of Oscar Wilde in the guise of the psychic, or moral vampire.'

Source: McCann, Andrew. Rosa Praed and the Vampire Aesthete. USA: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

 New York (City) : George Munro , 1885
616
y separately published work icon The Sacred Nugget B. L. Farjeon , New York (City) : George Munro , 1884 Z997706 1884 single work novel New York (City) : George Munro , 1884
811
y separately published work icon The Head Station : A Novel of Australian Life Rosa Praed , London : Chapman and Hall , 1885 Z864106 1885 single work novel New York (City) : George Munro , 1886
1229
y separately published work icon Sheba : A Study of Girlhood Rita , London : F. V. White , 1889 Z1042575 1889 single work novel New York (City) : George Munro , 1899
1583
y separately published work icon A Black Sheep Ada Cambridge , 1888-1889 Z1129210 1888-1889 single work novel

' Following the fortunes of Richard Delavel as a rebellious Oxford undergraduate in 1850s England and a still restless middle-aged family man in 1880s Sydney, the story presents his life and loves, work and leisure, beliefs and hopes against a background of constraints and opportunities in Britain and Australia.' (Publication summary)

 A Marked Man : Some Episodes of His Life New York (City) : George Munro , 1890
1840 (pocket edition)
y separately published work icon The Ladies' Gallery : A Novel Rosa Praed , Justin McCarthy , London : Richard Bentley , 1888 Z866899 1888 single work novel New York (City) : George Munro , 1891
1876 (pocket edition)
y separately published work icon The Soul of Countess Adrian : A Romance Rosa Praed , 1888 Z867047 1888 single work novel horror

'An actress in London is possessed by a vampire, but the spirit is driven out by an exorcism' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.57).

 New York (City) : George Munro , 1891
y separately published work icon A Mere Chance Ada Cambridge , 1880 Z401265 1880 single work novel New York (City) : George Munro , 1882
y separately published work icon Zero : A Story of Monte Carlo Rosa Praed , London : Chapman and Hall , 1884 Z863481 1884 single work novel New York (City) : George Munro , 1885
y separately published work icon Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill : An Australian Novel Tasma , 1888 Z1080459 1888 single work novel New York (City) : George Munro , 1889

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