A political satire modelled on Byron's Don Juan.

By Samuel O. Beeton, A.A. Dowty, and Evelyn D. Jerrold. Cf. BLC; H. Montgomery Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Beeton, p. 140-141. Formerly attributed to Eustace C. Grenville Murray, or to Beeton, "Doughty", and S.R. (or George R.) Emerson.

"Spinnings in town": p. 88-94, signed: The Silkworm; author identified as A.A. Dowty in BLC, but perhaps Matilda ("Myra") Browne, editor of Beeton's The Englishwoman's domestic magazine, for which she wrote a regular column called Spinnings in town, and signed The Silkworm. Cf. S. Freeman, Isabella and Sam, p. 257, 287.

Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction, 3480.

With: Benjamin D-------, his little dinner. London : Weldon & Co., 1876. Bound together subsequent to publication.

Burns Library copy imperfect: all p. after 94 wanting.