Emma Corbett selected pages from the sixth edition, 1786
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14324Call number:
Am 1786 PraDate:
1786Image Description:
Emma Corbett [or, The miseries of civil war] was Samuel Jackson Pratt's most most historically significant novel. It was based around the events of the Revolutionary War. In the novel, the title-character, Emma, travels to America to find her lover, Henry, who was fighting as a British soldier. She is captured by American rebels, but is released by George Washington's orders. She finds Henry, wounded by a poisoned arrow fired by an American 'Indian', and sucks out the venom, poisoning herself in the process. Henry dies and the fatally-ill Emma travels back to England with their child, to die. The novel was highly praised on its release and passed through many editions in several languages. Today, however, its principal significance is, firstly, its depiction of Anglo-American relations during the American War of Independence, and, secondly, that it was the first English novel to address the subject of the American Revolution. Pratt originally published Emma Corbett using his pseudonym "Courtney Melmoth."This volume has been partially digitized. This digital record contains images that depict only the cover, title page, page 1, and pages 185-189. HSP holds multiple editions of this novel.