The Corvey Novels Project at the University of Nebraska

— Studies in British Literature of the Romantic Period —

 

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Susannah Gunning

Mrs. Gunning. The Heir Apparent:  a Novel. By the late Mrs. Gunning . . . Revised and Augmented by her Daughter, Miss [Elizabeth] Gunning.

London:  James Ridgway and H. D. Symonds, 1802

Contemporary Reviews

Annual Review, 1 (1802), 725 [This review is available on the CW3 Website]

Critical Review, ns v35 (Aug. 1802), 477
(Art. 48.) The Heir Apparent: a Novel. By the late Mrs. Gunning. Revised and augmented by her Daughter, Miss Gunning. In 3 Vols. 12mo. 12s. Boards. Ridgway. 1802.

      If novels were written in our days as they were half a century back—that is, with all the care and attention their authors could bestow on them—we should term the Heir Apparent a hasty production, full of repetitions and inaccuracies of language. But, as the circulating library must now be yearly supplied at wholesale price, and he who writes fastest is the best man, it is but fair to allow that this article is of as marketable a quality as the produce of most other manufacturers.

Monthly Mirror, 15 (Mar. 1803), 179. [not seen]

Monthly Review, ns, v40 (Feb. 1803), 208. [not seen]

New Annual Register, 23 (1802), 322 [This review is available on the CW3 Website.]

-Prepared by Margaret Case Croskery, Ohio Northern University, July 2003