DE MORGAN, WILLIAM. Autograph manuscript of his fourth novel It Never Can Happen Again (first published 1909). N.p., n.d. [ca. 1908]. Approximately 970 pages, folio, written in a clear, bold hand in ink on rectos of fine quality unlined sheets, with revisions throughout and with insertions on a number of versos, stamped-dated on verso of p. 493 "8 Aug. 1908," in two brown cloth folding cases. With two autograph manuscript drafts and two typed drafts of the chapter contents of the novel, about 40 pages, 4to and folio, with extensive revisions in different colored inks , with pencilled dates on one of the typed drafts as early as September 1905 (indicating the novel may have been planned at that date). De Morgan published his first novel, Joseph Vance , at the age of sixty-seven; it was an immediate and enormous success. "He wrote five more novels besides two unfinished ones which his wife completed after his death [in 1917]. None of them duplicated the great success of Joseph Vance , but all were first rate examples of a genre which he revived -- the leisurely [often of 300,000-word length, as It Never Can Happen Again ] Victorian novel, with the author always prominent in its pages" (Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors , pp. 370-371).
DE MORGAN, WILLIAM. Autograph manuscript of his fourth novel It Never Can Happen Again (first published 1909). N.p., n.d. [ca. 1908]. Approximately 970 pages, folio, written in a clear, bold hand in ink on rectos of fine quality unlined sheets, with revisions throughout and with insertions on a number of versos, stamped-dated on verso of p. 493 "8 Aug. 1908," in two brown cloth folding cases. With two autograph manuscript drafts and two typed drafts of the chapter contents of the novel, about 40 pages, 4to and folio, with extensive revisions in different colored inks , with pencilled dates on one of the typed drafts as early as September 1905 (indicating the novel may have been planned at that date). De Morgan published his first novel, Joseph Vance , at the age of sixty-seven; it was an immediate and enormous success. "He wrote five more novels besides two unfinished ones which his wife completed after his death [in 1917]. None of them duplicated the great success of Joseph Vance , but all were first rate examples of a genre which he revived -- the leisurely [often of 300,000-word length, as It Never Can Happen Again ] Victorian novel, with the author always prominent in its pages" (Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors , pp. 370-371).
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