Aet. 46, to the London publisher of Evelyn Innes. See the bibliography of George Moore for a publishing history of Evelyn Innes. The second English edition was printed in August 1898 in an unknown number of copies.
The fictional character Ulick Dean was inspired by George Moore’s friend William Butler Yeats, to whom the novel was dedicated.
38° Celsius is 100.4° Farenheit. Parts of France experienced an exceptional heat wave in August 1898.
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