Dred - A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp #252878

It,was important for her own interests that Mrs. Stowe should secure a copyright for the book in England, where a great audience awaited her, and she made a journey abroad in the early summer of 1856 with this end particularly in View. She had already arranged with Messrs. Sampson Low co. For its republication, and she wrote for the English edition a special preface which states concisely the aim she had in View in writing Dred.