N. D'Anvers & Jules Verne 
The Blockade Runners (Illustrated) 

The Blockade Runners is a translation of Les forceursde blocus (1871). The Blockade Runners, a novella, was includedalong with A Floating City in the first english and french editionsof this work. This translation, which follows that of Sampson and Low(UK) and Scribners (US) is by ‘N. D’Anvers’, pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur Bell (d. 1933) who also translated other Verne books. It is alsoincluded in the fifteen volume Parke edition of the works of Jules Verne (1911). There is another translation by Henry Frith which waspublished by Routledge (1876).Both of these stories are about ships; Floating City about thelargest ship of the time, the Great Eastern, and Blockade Runnersabout one of the fastest, the Dolphin.