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The Heir Apparent
    (Review / The Heir Apparent: a Novel, by Susannah Gunning)
  Annual Review /JAS, 1802
  vol. 1 (1802): 725.
 
Art. IX. The Heir Apparent; a Novel in 3 Vols by the late Mrs Gunning, revised and corrected by her Daughter, Miss Gunning. pp. 845.

This interesting novel was begun by Mrs Gunning, who was attacked by illness during its progress, which increasing rapidly, she was with great reluctance prevailed on to lay aside her pen. It has, since that lady's decease, been revised and augmented by her daughter, Miss Gunning, who eminently possesses her mother's superior talents in novel writing. The Heir apparent, is the second son of a Lord Ormington, a most amiable youth, extremely handsome, highly accomplished, just arrived from Italy to console his widowed mother, and to attend with fraternal affection, his elder brother, languishing on the bed of sickness. The character of our hero is beautiful as well as naturally drawn. In Alicia Arundal, a young lady to whom Henry (the heir apparent) is fondly attached, the author has been peculiarly happy in pourtraying the character of a most engaging female, the model of every thing desirable in a companion for life. The character of Doningfield too is drawn with much interest; the countess (our hero's mother) is a composition of pride, avarice and unbounded ambition, to the gratification of which she descends to the lowest meannesses, and by her diabolical machinations, causes the death of two most amiable and deserving persons. [complete]

Provided by Julie A. Shaffer, November 1999.