Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Reading Contexts for Raymond

Early gothic fiction was often regarded as primarily a woman's genre in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. "Raymond; A Fragment" by Juvenis first appeared in the February 1799 The Lady's Magazine or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex. Below is a list of the texts that appeared alongside of "Raymond" in the February edition of the Magazine to provide information about how the original audience received the text:
  1. On Singularity
  2. A Query
  3. Description of the Town of Brighthelmstone. [With a view of the Prince of Wales Marine Pavilion, elegantly engraved]
  4. The Last Scene of the Comedy Lover's Vows, Act V. Scene II
  5. Description of the City of Washington in America. [Extracted from a letter written by an English Gentleman settled there to a friend in England, June 20, 1798] 
  6. Raymond; A Fragment by Juvenis.
  7. Emily Verrone; or The Perfidious Friend, a Novel (continued).
  8. An Account of the Voyage and Embassy of his Excellency the Earl of Macartney to China (continued).
  9. The Golden Mirror; or the Kings of Schescian. [From the German of M. Weiland] (continued).
  10. The Fatal Elopement; A Tragedy. [From the German of G.E. Leffing] Act I, Scene VI.
  11. A Landscape in Switzerland. [From Miss William's Tour].
  12. On National Pride, founded on imaginary Valour and Power. [From Zimmerman's essay an National Pride].


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