The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521664585
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction - 18th century - History and; English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In the second week of January 1762, an advertisement appeared in the London daily newspaper the Public Ledger reporting that a young lady had been lured to London, and then imprisoned and murdered by poisoning.