John de Lancaster is a three volume novel by the British writer Richard Cumberland, first published in 1809.Day & Lynch p.379The English Novel, 1770-1829 p.294 Cumberland, better known as a playwright, also produced three novels of which this was the last. It was published in London by Lackington, Allen, & Co. of Finsbury Square. Walter Scott wrote a review of the novel in the Quarterly Review.Williams p.152 It was one of his final works, and two years later he died and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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