Bateman, Mrs. J. C., prob. I Mrs. Bateman I, novelist. Author of The Netherwoods of Otterpool, 1858; Forgiveness, 1860; and three other novels of love and adventure with a generous element of religious sentiment. 

      "Eric Walderthorn" [XIII, 590-98. July 5, 1856 and the following no.] is a story of coincidence and misunderstanding, of love and noble thoughts – and an encounter with wolves in a German forest. (A wolf hunt is one of the episodes of Mrs. Bateman's historical novel Ierne of Armorica, 1873.) Dickens revised and shortened the story (letter to Wills, June 22, 1856). 
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Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.