Aet. 39, to an American publisher. Page 18 of the English edition of Vain Fortune was the first page of Chapter 2. The confinement of Esther Waters was described in Chapter 16 of her story. Lemuel W. Bangs was Scribner’s agent in London. In 1894, Esther Waters was published in England without a contract for American publication. George Moore thereby lost his copyright in the United States.

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