Word: edgeworths
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...best works. He was paid L250 for "The Three Clerks," and L400 for "Dr. Thorne." He began to run into four figures with "Framley Parsonage," for which he received L1000; and his highest price was L3500, for "Can You Forgive Her ?" The highest sum that was paid to Miss Edgeworth for one of her incomparable Irish stories was L250. Lord Lytton is believed to have cleared L80,000 by his novels. It is a fact that Mr. Colburn's readers reported so unfavorably of "Pelham" that the manuscript was on the point of being returned to the author, when...