First published by Edward Arnold in 1896 as 'The bondwoman'. Republished in 1932 as 'The bondwomen', the preface explaining "it has long been out of print" and "as another writer has appropriated the title" - probably Marah Ellis Ryan's The bondwoman (1899) - "and as my subject is really more than one slave-girl of the Norse settlers of Westmorland, I make bold to alter a single letter for the sake of distinction and call it now "The Bondwomen".