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MANVILL, MRS.[P.D.]. Lucinda; Or the Mountain Mourner. Being Recent Facts, in a Series of Letters, from Mrs. Manvill, in the State of New York, to Her Sister in Pennsylvania. Johnstown, [N.Y.]: W. & A. Child, 1807. 1st ed. 12mo. 150 pp. Cont. plain sheep. An excellent copy. Very rare. $1,250.00

 

Wright I, 1800: "Saratoga County, N.Y.; contemporary." Not in Wegelin, Early American Fiction. S & S 12985. S & S and Wright together locate four copies. A popular epistolary novel comprising 30 letters, set around Saratoga Springs and in Marcellus, near Syracuse. Mrs. Manvill's only novel, reprinted at least seven times before 1840.