Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 348
small that it was a question atthe time whether its publication should not be dis-continued altogether. At that critical juncture he published Mrs.Perkinss Ball, which caught on at once, and this anda favourable review in the Edinburgh are supposedto have sent the public after the novel, for the… … J/emMqfoNfredf/dcock ■ THACKERAY 303 first saw him when the book was still unfinished butits success assured. He says that Thackeray pointedout to him the house in Russell Square where theimaginary Sedleys lived, and that when he con-gratulated him on that scene in Vanity Fair in whichBecky Sharp…
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