The Miser
There were beside many other prolific and once popular novelists who addressed themselves to the subject of miserliness. For the most part theirs were genre works catering to readers in the circulating libraries of the 19th century. Among them was the gothic novel "The miser and his family" (1800) by Eliza Parsons and Catherine Hutton's "The miser married" (1813). The latter was an epistolary novel in which Charlotte Montgomery describes her own romantic affairs and in addition those of her mother, an unprincipled spendthrift who has just married the miser of the title. Another female novelist, Mary E. Bennett (1813–99), set her "The Gipsy Bride or the Miser's Daughter" (1841) in the 16th century. Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd (1863) was a successful sensation novel in which banknotes rather than gold are the object of desire and a motive for murder. It was dramatised the same year and later toured the US; in 1912 it was made a silent film. Later examples include Eliza Lynn Linton's "Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miser" (1886); "Miser Farebrother" (1888) by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon; and "Dollikins and the Miser" (1890) by the American Frances Eaton. In 1904 Jerome K. Jerome created "Nicholas Snyders, The Miser of Zandam" in a sentimental story of the occult in which the Dutch merchant persuades a generous young man to exchange souls with him.