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... that Ōyama Sutematsu was eleven years old when she was sent with the Iwakura Mission to receive an American education on behalf of Japan?
... that the English and French translations of Kenjirō Tokutomi's The Cuckoo all omit a key aspect of its most famous line?
... that Elizabeth Bonhôte wrote Bungay Castle after her husband bought Bungay Castle?
... that the 1748 chapbook A Spy on Mother Midnight is studied for its sex scenes with cross-dressing and a dildo?
... that the first biography of the first Japanese woman to earn a college degree was written by her great-granddaughter, who also studied abroad in the U.S.?
Angelica Kauffman's 1779 painting of "Poor Maria" from A Sentimental Journey
... that one 18th-century reader was so offended by some chapters of Laurence Sterne's 1768 novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (scene pictured) that they glued the pages shut?
... that Deborah D. Rogers used Ann Radcliffe's commonplace book to show that Radcliffe was not driven mad by her Gothic novels, but that she just had asthma?
... that the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut did not become popular in France until after it was banned for immorality?
... that readers of Your Computer is On Fire would be "faced with an existential crisis", according to The Register?
... that Laurence Sterne was told to burn all copies of his pamphlet that depicts his patron's rival with a toilet on his head?
... that Laurence Sterne's journal of love letters reverses the found-manuscript literary device by claiming that his real diary is fictional?
... that the first review of Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel complained that its marriage plot focused too much on love?
... that by spinning off Lord Fitzhenry (1794) from a four-volume work in progress, Elizabeth Gunning was paid for two novels instead of one?
Caricature of Elizabeth Gunning
... that Elizabeth Gunning (caricature pictured) was the subject of a pamphlet war about forged love letters, and used her notoriety to market her first novel?
... that one historian considered the anachronisms of the historical novel The Rival Chiefs to be unproblematic because readers wanted "not accuracy but thrill"?
... that one contemporary reviewer was suspicious of an unacknowledged translation of Les Malheurs de l'inconstance because "French principles and French depravity mark the whole work"?
... that Jules Verne's 1875 short story about Amiens in the year 2000 describes some changes he later oversaw as a city councilor?
... that Bootles' Baby's author's baby was Bootles?
... that the novel Lady Jennifer sometimes came with a book of advice promoting John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations?
... that a Dutch publisher pirated the first four volumes of Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality, then hired the author to write more?
... that the author of Tristram Shandy signed entire print runs of his books to prove they were genuine?

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