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    • Author:

    Penelope Aubin

    Title:

    The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lad

    Place of publication:

    London

    Publisher:

    Printed for A. Bettesworth

    Date of publication:

    1723

    Edition:

    1st ed.

    Number of volumes:

    1

    This novel by Penelope Aubin appeared again in print in 1770, published anonymously under the title The Inhuman Stepmother; or the History of Miss Harriot Montague. With only a few minor changes made to the text, such as changes to the names of characters, this later version was apparently a case of plagiarism of Aubin's novel. For a full comparison of the two texts and discussion of eighteenth-century plagiarism, see Maggie Kulik's article 'What the Bookseller Did' [download PDF], published in The Female Spectator in 2024. The full text of The Inhuman Stepmother; or the History of Miss Harriot Montague is also available on Novels-On-Line.

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