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Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709)

Seager, Nick

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This article aims to remove the “probable” caveat from one title listed in P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens’s Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (1998). It demonstrates that previously overlooked external evidence confirms the internal evidence cited by Furbank and Owens, showing that Defoe certainly was the author of A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709). Item “103(P)” in the Critical Bibliography should now be simply “103.” Our knowing for certain he wrote the pamphlet also presents an opportunity to clarify precisely how Defoe satirizes Henry Sacheverell in this neglected piece.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 15, 2019
Online Publication Date Mar 1, 2021
Publication Date Mar 1, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Print ISSN 0006-128X
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 115
Issue 1
Pages 79-86
DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/712790
Publisher URL https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/712790

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