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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Title: Kirke Webbe, the Privateer Captain

Author and Title: William Russell. Kirke Webbe, the Privateer Captain

First Edition: London: Charles Knight, 1858. 1 volume, 12mo., 1s. 6d.

Serialization: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 1 August 1857 to 12 December 1857 (weekly)

Summary: By "Waters." The painter and novelist F. W. Hayes (1848–1918) rewrote and completed a version of this story as Captain Kirke Webbe (1907).

References: BL; EC; Sadleir

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