Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox

This is not a Victorian penny dreadful at all, but rather Volume I of Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, a serious biographical and historical work edited by Lord John Russell and published in 1853 by Richard Bentley in London. The text consists of scholarly apparatus (preface, advertisement, and introductory material) establishing the provenance of Fox's papers, which were originally compiled by Lord Holland and later edited by Mr. Allen and Russell himself. The volume organizes Fox's correspondence and biographical materials chronologically across seven projected books, spanning from his family origins through his death in 1806. The opening passages discuss Sir Stephen Fox, founder of the family line (born 1627), his career under Charles II, and his second marriage. This is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political biography and correspondence, not serialized fiction.