Uncaptioned headnote vignette from the first page of nineteenth instalment (Chapters 43-45)
John McLenan
1861
Wood engraving
10.5 cm. by 5.5 cm. (4 ⅛ by 2 ¼ inches)
Bulwer-Lytton's A Strange Story
Harper's Weekly (14 December 1861): 794.
“Oh, for a friend! oh, for a guide!”
And as I so murmured, my eye fell upon the form of a kneeling child, — at the farther end of the burial-ground, beside a grave with its new headstone gleaming white amidst the older moss-grown tombs, a female child, her head bowed, her hands clasped. I could see but the outline of her small form in its sable dress — an infant beside the dead.
Image scan and text by Philip V. Allingham.
