Fortescue is an 1846 three-volume novel by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.
[1] He had for many years been a leading West End playwright, but by this stage his career was in gradual decline and he turned to novel-writing.
It is set in Cork where Knowles was born and raised.
The New Monthly Magazine review believed that the novel may have been semi-autobiographical.
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