Subtitling Rebecca and Rowena

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English, Mississippi State University

Note 4 to Chapter 3 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

This episode is described in detail in Edgar Harden, Rebecca and Rowena. Three manuscript pages with advertisement copy and preface are at the John Rylands Library, Manchester. The published advertisement has not been located.

Last modified: 4 April 2001