Bracebridge Hall

Plot introduction

Plot summary

Volume I

1. The Author
2. The Hall
3. The Busy Man
4. Family Servants
5. The Widow
6. The Lovers
7. Family Reliques
8. An Old Soldier
9. The Widow's Retinue
10. Ready Money Jack
11. Bachelors
12. Wives
13. Story Telling
14. The Stout Gentleman
15. Forest Trees
16. A Literary Antiquary
17. The Farm-House
18. Horsemanship
19. Love-Symptoms
20. Falconry
21. Hawking
22. St. Mark's Eve
23. Gentility
24. Fortune Telling
25. Love-Charms
26. The Library
27. The Student of Salamanca

    Volume II

28. English Country Gentleman
29. A Bachelor's Confessions
30. English Gravity
31. Gipsies
32. May-Day Customs
33. Village Worthies
34. The Schoolmaster
35. The School
36. A Village Politician
37. The Rookery
38. May-Day
39. The Manuscript
40. Annette Delarbre
41. Travelling
42. Popular Superstitions
43. The Culprit
44. Family Misfortunes
45. Lovers' Troubles
46. The Historian
47. The Haunted House
48. Dolph Heyliger
49. The Storm-Ship
50. The Wedding
51. The Author's Farewell

    Release details

• 1822, USA, C.S. Van Winkle. Pub date May 21, 1822, Hardback. While American copies have the name C.S. Van Winkle on the title page, the original bindings bear the inscription "Published by M&S Thomas, Philadelphia" on the spine. See Works, 9:xxivn28.
• 1822, UK, John Murray, Pub date May 23, 1822, Hardback.
• 1823, Berlin, German translation.
• 1836, USA, Carey, Lea and Blanchard, Pub date ? 1836, Hardback.
• 1865, USA, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Pub date 1865, Hardback by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
• 1869, USA, G.P. Putnam and Son, Pub date ? ? 1869, Hardback.
• 1876, London, Macmillan & Co., Hardback, one volume edition, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott
• 1890, London, Edinburgh & New York, T. Nelson and Sons, Pub date ? ? 1890, Hardback.
• 1978, USA, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Pub date 1 October 1978, Hardback.
• 1990, USA, Ams Pr, Pub date 1 June 1990, Hardback.
• 1991, USA, Library of America: Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra, Pub date March 1, 1991..