Lippincott (1868, 1869, 1879, 1890)

Figure 1: Publishing History of the three US translations of OMS, based on 67 exemplars

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Fig. 4 Proximity of Salable Novels (1876) Measured by Topic ModelingFar Left: Individual Novel; Gray=All the other novels

Blue=Old Mam’selle’s Secret; Green=Jane Eyre; Red=Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe

“Market Basket” Analysis of Reader PreferencesMuncie, Indiana 1891-1892, 1894-1902

Green=Novels by Marlitt, including The Old Mam’selle’s Secret, farthest leftTransactions for Jane Eyre do not meet the threshold for inclusion

Fig. 3 “Market Basket” Analysis of Reader Preferences by AuthorMuncie, Indiana, 1891-1892, 1894-1902 Upper right cluster: Alger & related; Lower right cluster: Alcott & relatedLeft cluster: Marlitt (Green), Roe, Alexander, Evans, Carey, Crawford, Corelli, Burnham, Burnett, Barr, et al.; tiny red dot is Brontë

American Translations and their Publications