The Countess of Salisbury (novel)

The Countess of Salisbury

1848 edition
Author	Alexandre Dumas
Language	French
Publication date	1836
Publication place	France
Media type	Print

The Countess of Salisbury (French: La Comtesse de Salisbury) is an 1836 historical adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised in the newly founded La Presse newspaper between July and September 1836.^[1] Dumas had been writing plays since the 1820s, but this marked his first serialised novel. In 1839 it was published as a three volume edition and a year later was published in an English translation.^[2] Walter Scott was an influence on the author's writings, and he praises him in the preface of the 1839 edition in comparison to Genlis and Cottin.^[3]

The novel is inspired by the life of the Countess of Salisbury and her relations with Edward III of England in the fourteenth century.

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