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Page 269
... novel from an antislavery news- paper ? They could never sell a thousand copies of it , Lee predicted ; while a success with it ( as publishers then regarded success ) would be worse than failure . Phillips , Sampson & Co. did a large ...
... novel from an antislavery news- paper ? They could never sell a thousand copies of it , Lee predicted ; while a success with it ( as publishers then regarded success ) would be worse than failure . Phillips , Sampson & Co. did a large ...
Page 302
... novel all at once exploded into popular favour , as half a dozen London publishers , dis- covering that the text was unprotected , brought out their editions simul- taneously . In Paris , where President Louis Napoleon was openly and ...
... novel all at once exploded into popular favour , as half a dozen London publishers , dis- covering that the text was unprotected , brought out their editions simul- taneously . In Paris , where President Louis Napoleon was openly and ...
Page 409
... novel . This , too , was to be on the slavery theme , partly because Phillips , Sampson & Co. wanted to bring out another anti- slavery story from her pen , and partly , no doubt , because it was patent to Harriet by this time that ...
... novel . This , too , was to be on the slavery theme , partly because Phillips , Sampson & Co. wanted to bring out another anti- slavery story from her pen , and partly , no doubt , because it was patent to Harriet by this time that ...
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