Fortescue is an 1846 three-volume novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.The Encyclopaedia of Romantic Literature p.733 He had for many years been a leading West End playwright, but by this stage his career was in gradual decline, and he turned to novel-writing. It is set in Cork where Knowles was born and raised. The New Monthly Magazine review believed that the novel may have been semi-autobiographical.Murphy p.258 It was serialised in The Sunday Times. It was published in New York by Harper Brothers in 1847.
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