First Publication of Novels by Eminent Hands

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English, Mississippi State University

Note 7 to Chapter 1 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Also known as Punch's Prize Novelists and first published in Punch 22-23 (1847).

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