Round the Sofa

The second volume consists of the short stories An Accursed Race, The Doom of the Griffiths, Half a Life-time Ago, The Poor Clare, and The Half-Brothers.

The Doom of the Griffiths was first published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in January 1858.

[2] The Half-Brothers was first published in Fulcher's Ladies' Memorandum Book and Poetical Miscellany in 1856.

[3] In 1861 Sampson Low, Son & Co. published a 1-volume second edition entitled My Lady Ludlow, and Other Tales; included in "Round the Sofa".

In the 1861 book the lengths of the stories are: Round the Sofa, 6 p.; My Lady Ludlow, 164 p.; An Accursed Race, 15 p.; The Doom of the Griffiths, 33 p.; Half a Life-time Ago, 40 p.; The Poor Clare, 49 p.; The Half-Brothers, 10 p.[4]

First edition title page from Round the Sofa ; Volume 1 consists of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefaced a brief fictionalized introduction entitled Round the Sofa .