The Wreck of the Grosvenor

For the unrelated 1782 wreck of the same name see Wreck of the Grosvenor

First edition title page

The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877)^[1] is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea."^[2] It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century.^[3] It was Russell's best selling and most well known novel.^[3] Russell noted in a preface, the novel 'found its first and best welcome in the United States.'^[2]

The novel was published nearly a century after the actual Wreck of the Grosvenor, in 1782; coincidentally the novel has the same name but is otherwise unrelated.

Notes

1. Commonly incorrectly stated as published anonymously in 1875.
2. John Sutherland (1990) [1989]. "The Wreck of the Grosvenor". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. p. 681.
3. William Russell obituary, The New York Times, Nov 9, 1911.

External links

• The Wreck of the Grosvenor at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)