[Ads-l] prequel (1922)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Great antedating, Ben !

Fred

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Subject: prequel (1922)

My Wall Street Journal column this week is on the history of the word
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OED3, MWCD, and various online sources give 1958 as the earliest date, from
a review by Anthony Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Here it is from 1922.

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Publishers' Weekly, Aug. 12, 1922, p. 524 (advt.)
A Prequel not a Sequel
Dorothy Canfield's new novel
ROUGH HEWN
is the story of Neal and Marise before they appeared in
The Brimming Cup
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