Background Information

Geographical and Socio-political Associations: Victorian Ireland

Illustrations for Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon (1840, rpt. 1873)

Volume One (1840) ends with the conclusion of Chapter Sixty-Seven, at approximately the mid-point of the 1873 single-volume edition.

Curry's serialisation of individual monthly parts combined instalments 21 and 22 in order to wind up the novel prior to December 1841. This "double number" thus contained the final four illustrations plus the frontispiece and the vignette on the title-page. Later, single-volume editions dropped the frontispiece vignette of O'Malley and Napoleon.

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