[ McCarthy / Miss Misanthrope ]
Justin McCarthy (1830 - 1912) was an Irish novelist, historian, and politician. This book, like McCarthy's Dear Lady Disdain (also treated here at The Cultured Newf) was first published serially in Gentleman's Magazine in 1877, from which the text below is taken. It was published in book form the next year, and republished in 1891.
The only reference to Newfoundlands is metaphorical, and refers to the gentle nature of the father of one of the characters:
Then Lucy went for her father, if he was in the house, and drew him forth. He was wonderfully genial with his womankind. They might disturb him at any moment and in any way they chose. He seemed to have as little idea of grumbling if they disturbed him as a Newfoundland dog would have of snapping at his master's children if they insisted on rousing him up from his doze in the sun. (278, March 1877 issue)
This is the only mention of Newfoundlands in this novel.