Edinburgh V1: A Satirical Novel (1820)
by:
Thomas Brown (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780548729090 (0548729093)
Publish date: November 1st 2007
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
[These notes were made in 1981. I read the 3-volume 1820 edition:]. The "novel" part - the misadventures of an upstart who poses as a lady (and gets away with it, for a while) in Edinburgh - is simply an excuse, a loose framework on which to hang as many slightly-veiled, often abusive portraits of ...