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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: George Augustus Sala

Author: George Augustus Sala (1828–1895)

Alternate Name(s): Benedict Cruiser (pseudonym)

Biography: Edited The Welcome Guest and Sala's Journal (1892–1894). See entry in DNB or Sutherland.

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References: DNB; NCBEL; RLF; Ralph Straus, Sala: The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian (Constable, 1942); Sutherland

Fiction Titles:

  1. How I Tamed Mrs. Cruiser.  1 vol.  London: James Blackwood, 1858.
  2. The Baddington Peerage: Who Won, and Who Wore It. A Story of the Best and Worst of Society.  3 vol.  London: C. J. Skeet, 1860.
  3. Make Your Game: or, The Adventures of the Stout Gentleman, the Slim Gentleman, and the Man with the Iron Chest. A Narrative of the Rhine and Thereabouts.  1 vol.  London: Ward and Lock, 1860.
  4. The Seven Sons of Mammon: A Story.  3 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1862.
  5. The Two Prima Donnas, and The Dumb Door Porter: (A Tale Imitated from the Russian of Tourguenieff).  1 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1862.
  6. The Ship Chandler and Other Tales.  1 vol.  London: Ward and Lock, 1862.
  7. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous: Who was a Soldier. . . and Died at Last in his Own House in Hanover Square.  3 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863.
  8. The Perfidy of Captain Slyboots and Other Tales.  1 vol.  London: Ward and Lock, 1863.
  9. Quite Alone.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.
  10. The Late Mr. D--: And other Tales.  1 vol.  London: Ward and Lock, 1869.
  11. The Story of the Comte de Chambord: A Trilogy.  1 vol.  London: Routledge, 1873.
  12. Margaret Forster: A Dream within a Dream.  1 vol.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.