Principal Works
Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Essays (poetry) 1784; enlarged edition 1786; enlarged as Elegiac Sonnets 1789; enlarged edition 1792; enlarged edition 1795; enlarged as Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems 2 vols. 1797
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost [translator] (novel) 1785
Emmeline, The Orphan of the Castle 4 vols. (novel) 1788
Ethelinde; or, The Recluse of the Lake 5 vols. (novel) 1789
Celestina: A Novel 4 vols. (novel) 1791
Desmond: A Novel 3 vols. (novel) 1792
The Emigrants: A Poem, in Two Books (poetry) 1793
The Old Manor House: A Novel 4 vols. (novel) 1793
The Banished Man: A Novel 4 vols. (novel) 1794
The Wanderings of Warwick (novel) 1794
Montalbert: A Novel 3 vols. (novel) 1795
Marchmont: A Novel 4 vols. (novel) 1796
A Narrative of the Loss of the Catharine, Venus, and Piedmont Transports, and the Thomas, Golden Grove, and Æolus Merchant Ships, Near Weymouth, on Wednesday the 18th of November Last (journalism) 1796
Minor Morals, interspersed with Sketches of Natural History, Historical Anecdotes, and Original Stories (children’s stories) 1798
The Young Philosopher: A Novel 4 vols. (novel) 1798
The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer (novel) 1800
Conversations Introducing Poetry, Chiefly on Subjects of Natural History, for the Use of Children and Young Persons 2 vols. (fictional dialogues and poetry) 1804
Beachy Head, with Other Poems (poetry) 1807
The Natural History of Birds, Intended Chiefly for Young Persons 2 vols. (non-fiction) 1807
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