The Polack Archive

Fiction Without Romance; or The Locket Watch (1830)

Description

Fiction Without Romance; or The Locket-Watch (1830) contains two volumes and no chapters. The novel was printed once by Wertheimer and Son in the East End. It was published later the same year by Effingham Wilson. The novel has never been reprinted. I've identified six extant copies of the novel.

For a discussion of the novel's cultural contexts see Heidi Kaufman, "Romance in Maria Polack's Fiction Without Romance (1830)," Romantic Circles Praxis Series, “The Sundry Faces of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literature,” ed. Karen Weisman (November 2020).

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    Maria Polack is believed to be the first Anglo-Jewish novelists. Fiction Without Romance is her only known published work. The novel was published in 1830 by Effingham Wilson and was printer by J. Wertheimer in London's East End. This book has never been republished.
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    Maria Polack is believed to be the first Anglo-Jewish novelists. Fiction Without Romance is her only known published work. The novel was published in 1830 by Effingham Wilson and was printer by J. Wertheimer in London's East End. This book has never been republished.