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Mary
Shelley (1797-1851) never matched the remarkable success of her
first novel, Frankenstein (1818), but she continued to
write poetry, essays and fiction during the lonely years following
the death of her husband in 1822. Her historical story based on
the life of Perkin Warbeck was published by Henry Colburn and Richard
Bentley, two of the most prominent producers of circulating library
fiction during the nineteenth century. Their offer of £150
for a three-volume novel of '320 pages at least' in each was typical
of Bentley's arrangements at this time.
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