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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Johannes Scotus

Author: Johannes Scotus (born 1840)

Alternate Name(s): (pseudonym)

Biography: This author cannot be traced. Preface uses male pronouns and is signed from Edinburgh. Literary gossip reveals the author to be a 22-year-old Scotsman. Author contributed to letter exchange about his novel in the pages of the Morning Post in September 1862.

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References: Stirling Observer (24 July 1862)

Fiction Titles:

  1. The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time.  2 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1862.