Notes: RRP (Recommended Retail Price) £7.99 for UK. Edited by James Trainer, with an Introduction and Notes by James Watt. Originally published as The Champion of Virtue: A Gothic Story in 1777, lightly revised under this title in 1780. Trainer's edit dates to 1967 edition, issued in Oxford English Novels series. Watt's Introduction and Notes first issued in 2003. Cover art: detail from Charles Carroll of Carrollton, c. 1763, by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Yale Center for British Art). Prefatory material: Introduction, Note on the Text, Select Bibliography, A Chronology of Clara Reeve. The author's Preface to the Second Edition appears on pages 2-4, preceding the novel. Appendices: Reeve's introduction to The Champion of Virtue in 1777, p. 136; Reeve's Dedication to Mrs. Bridgen, p. 140; Explanatory Notes, p. 140. Thomas M. Disch used "Clara Reeve" as the title of his pseudonymous historical novel (as by Leonie Hargrave) in 1975.