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(Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition - source: NIU Libraries)
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| Online Full Text: |
Northern Illinois University (Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition)
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| Series: |
Brady's Mercury Stories
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no. 5 Cheap Edition of Popular Authors — no. 5 Fireside Library of Popular Reading — v. 5 no. 54 — chapters I-XLV (conclusion), pages 1-48 New Twenty-Five Cent Novels — no. 2 New York Mercury — v. 25 no. 1275 |
| Alternate Titles: |
The Pride of the Downes; or, The Mystery of the Wishing Well The Pride of the Dowries; or, The Mystery of the Wishing Well The Prophetic Heiress; or, The Mystery of the Wishing Well |
| Subjects / Tags: |
Adultery Beauty contests False imprisonment Female offenders Jealousy Love stories Murder Nobility Pride and vanity Revenge Surrey (England) Wishing wells |
| Author: |
Blount, Margaret, 1835-approximately 1906
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| Dates: |
June 27, 1863 (New York Mercury edition) December 1, 1869 (New Twenty-Five Cent Novels edition) September 15, 1875 (Cheap Edition of Popular Authors edition) January 1, 1880 (Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition) |
| Notes: |
"Originally published as a serial in Reynold's Miscellany, XXX, beginning May 9, 1863, and simultaneously, under the title "Downe Reserve; or, The Mystery of the Wishing Well" as a serial in the New York Mercury, XXV, beginning in No. 1275, June 27, 1863. The same publishers issued it in book form, and later Frederic Brady issued it in August, 1864."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams |
Known Editions
Brady's Mercury Stories editionNew York Mercury edition (in New York Mercury, vol. XXV, no. 1275)
New Twenty-Five Cent Novels edition
Cheap Edition of Popular Authors edition
Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition (chapters I-XLV (conclusion), pages 1-48 in Fireside Library, v. V, no. 54, January 1, 1880)
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