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Julia de Roubigné

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First published: 1777
Pages: 184

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Julia de Roubigné is a 1777 epistolary novel by Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), the Edinburgh man of letters celebrated for The Man of Feeling. Told in letters, it traces a marriage destroyed by suppressed love and jealousy to a tragic close that contemporaries compared to Othello, and it carries an early attack on West Indian slavery through its hero's Martinique scenes. Burns called Mackenzie's fiction among his favourite reading, and the novel stands with the best of the sentimental school.

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Henry Mackenzie

Henry Mackenzie FRSE was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer sometimes seen as the Addison of the North. While remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal roles, which led in 1804–1831 to a lucrative post as Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, whose possession allowing him to follow his interest in writing.