Paul Clifford [1835], Eugene Aram [1833], Night and Morning [1851], and Lucretia [1853] by Edward Bulwer Lytton, and Rookwood [1836] and Jack Sheppard [first edition] by W. Harrison Ainsworth, are included here.
Many of the most important documents of the Ossian phenomenon have hitherto only been accessible in a handful of British research libraries. This collection brings these documents for the first time to a wider audience.
In their own day, the works in this collection of now all-but-forgotten plays, composed between 1710 and 1820, enjoyed much critical and commercial success.