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Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,, 1978. Hardcover. VG/VG-. 0252006763 1st edition, 8vo, burgundy cloth hardcover, 324 pp, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has a slightly "dusty" top page edge, internally clean and tight; jacket has small chips and tears along top edge, sunning to spine and along top edges. The first extensive examination of the fiction of Anne-Louise Germaine Necker, the Baroness de Stael-Holstein (1766-1817), the out-spoken 18th-century French woman writer...

London / NY: Routledge, 1996. First paperback edition . Soft cover. VG+. 1st softbound edition, 8vo, 242 pages, b/w illustrations, extensive bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear, a slightly sunned spine. "A lively and revealing historical exploration of the immensely popular ladies' magazines of the 19th and early 20th century; Beetham investigates how these magazines deployed visual images and a range of written forms to define the femininity of their readers and to address their desire.

New York: Mentor Association, 1919. Soft cover. Very Good. From The Mentor's Department of Literature, Volume 7, Number 13, August 15, 1919, Serial No. 185. Large 8vo, stapled wraps, 12 pages, six photogravures laid-in. Condition is VERY GOOD: light edgewear around paper covers and spine, internally clean and tight with all six gravures present and in excellent condition. The full-page gravures include Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gertrude Atherton, Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Mary Roberts Rhinehart; the essay discusses many other American women writers, an incredible amount of information in these 12 pages!

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Fine. There is no publication information - this is a reprint of the 1931 edition by Jonathan Cape, bound in black buckram, published by Houghton Mifflin. 8vo, black cloth, 468 pages, b/w frontispiece, index. The introduction by F. V. Barry is an early literary analysis of Edgeworth [1768-1849]; the selected letters cover 1791-1849. FINE / no jacket [as issued] - this book is brand new.

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. Hardcover. Collectible; VG-. Later printing, 12mo, original brownish publisher's cloth with paper spine label, 336 pages, 6 pages publisher ads. Condition: VERY GOOD- : cover wear (staining, fading, slight rippling to rear board cloth), faint foxing to endpapers, three owner names to front endpaper, internally clean and tight. Hemans (1793-1835), born Felicia Dorothea Browne in Liverpool, was very popular in her day, her poems read and respected alongside her contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, etc. She had five children in six years, was abandoned by her husband, spent the rest of her life writing in order to survive and was dead by the age of forty-one. You can read more about her at the Chawton House Library website.

NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. VG+. Reprint of edition first published in 1927, edited with a preface, a supplement chronologically arranged and containing hitherto unpublished or uncollected material and a bibliographical note by W. Clark Durant. 8vo, dark green cloth, 352 pages, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket (as issued): nearly new.

New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Susan Hale. Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Chautauqua-Century Press, 1898 / Meadville, PA: Flood and Vincent, 1898. 1st thus ed. 12mo, green cloth with black decoration, gilt titles on spine, 326 pages, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ / no jacket: slight rubbing at edges, slightly dusty top page edge, internally clean and tight (i.e someone did not do their homework...) One of the books published for the 1898-99 year of The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. "Chautauqua Reading Circle Literature" heads the title page. Includes chapters on Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Charlotte Lennox, Joseph Addison and John Gay; Samuel Richardson and Harriet Byron; Henry Fielding; Oliver Goldsmith, Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray; Evelina (Frances Burney) and Samuel Johnson; Beau Nash and Bath; and Mrs. [Ann] Radcliffe and her Followers.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Herbert Tauss. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. Description: Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1981. 8vo, green cloth with gilt decoration / green leather backstrip, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmark, 536 pages, b/w illustrations by Herbert Tauss. Condition: NEAR FINE / no jacket as issued: book is like new; half-title page is lightly creased. Eliot's classic tale of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver, originally published in 1860 in 3 volumes by William Blackwood.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. VG+. Manning, Wray.. 8co, burgundy cloth hardcover, 471 pp, color illustrations, "Sandglass" laid-in, slipcase. VERY GOOD+ book / no jacket (as issued) / VERY GOOD+ slipcase: book spine is very slightly sunned; light rubbing to edges of slipcase. A very nice copy.

London: Pandora, 1987. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0863580815 1987 reprint edition, 8vo, black hardcover, 357 pp, b&w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has slight edgewear and crease to top edge. The classic work on early women writers.

London: George Routledge, 1905. First paperback edition . Hardcover. G+. No additional printings noted. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilt, 380 pages, xxxvii - introduction by Ernest A. Baker. Condition: GOOD+ / no jacket: fading to the black at edges and spine, rubbing to extremities with 1" tear to top spine gutter, corners bumped, webbing exposed at endpapers but book remains tight, toning to endpapers, internally clean except for faint spotting to first few pages and an owner name on the fep. Contents: The Royal Slave; The Fair Jilt; The Nun; Agnes De Castro; The Lover's Watch; The Case for the Watch; The Lady's Looking-Glass to Dress Herself By; The Lucky Mistake; The Court of the King of Bantam; and The Adventure of the Black Lady. [ Aphra Behn, 1640-1689, a poet, spy, playwright, and novelist - Baker in his introduction begins with "To most people nowadays the name of Aphra Behn conveys nothing more intelligible that certain vague associations of… Leer más

Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2002. First Thus Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Introduction by Hermione Lee, 1st thus edition, 8vo, green cloth, xxxiv, 28 pages, first published in 1930 by The Hogarth Press, cover art by Vanessa Bell. Condition is NEAR FINE book / FINE jacket: scratch mark to front board, otherwise book is like new, unread.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st ed, 8v0, burgundy cloth, 174 pages, 1 b/w illustration, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: owner name on fep; jacket has a small faint stain to front cover, tiny tear to front top corner. Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), one of the first feminists to engage in a lifelong [alas! cut way too short] crusade for female equality...and we bless her for it...

London: Phoenix, 2000. Soft cover. VG+. 1842121669 Reprint ed. [originally published in 1977 by Jonathan Cape], 8vo, wraps, 332 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st American ed. 12mo, beige cloth with green titles, top edge green, 370 pages. Condition is VERY GOOD book / GOOD- jacket: front board has a faint damp stain on bottom edge with a slight rippling of the first several pages which does not affect your reading pleasure, otherwise little wear, owner inscription on front endpaper; jacket is edgeworn with 1" missing chips to spine head and tail, rubbing at folds, NOT price-clipped. Photograph of Thirkell on jacket fly.

London: Smith, Elder, 1833. Hardcover. Collectible; VG+. 16mo, 3/4 leather (dk. green) w/ tan cloth, marbled eps and page edges. Currie & Bowman Binders; frontispiece engraving of Ellen Eskdale, painted by H. Richter, engraved by H. Cook. Professionally rebound: a linen reback with original spine. VERY GOOD+ with minor scattered soiling. Sarah Stickney, later Ellis (1799-1872) is best known for her popular advice to women and her writings: Women of England (1838), the Daughters of England (1842), The Mothers of England (1843) and The Wives of England (1843.) Pictures of Private Life, an earlier title, prior to her marriage to William Ellis in 1837, includes the introductory chapter "An Apology for Fiction.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Reprint ed. of 1949, c1938. 12mo, tan cloth, blue titles, map of Barsetshire endpapers, 192 pages. VERY GOOD book / FAIR jacket: book has minor wear to extremities, gentle bumping to corners, faint spine crease; jacket is edgeworn separated at front, spine sunned, price-clipped, now all quite lovely in protective mylar. "When Alice Barton, who had never been to a gathering of quite this kind before, was invited by the terrifying Lord Pomfret to Pomfret Towers, she wished she were dead." and it goes uphill from there!

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st American ed. 8vo, hardcover164 pages, b/w illustrations, index. Condition is VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: light spotting to pages edges. A stimulating mix of personal and literary history.

NY: NY: Appleton-Century, 1965., 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 1st edition, with LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR LAID-IN. 332p. bibliography, frontispiece, maroon cloth. VG+/VG+: owner name in pencil; DJ: lite edgewear, slight toning.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. VG/G+. 1st edition, 12mo, green cloth, 226 pages, bibliographical notes. VERY GOOD book / GOOD jacket: light edgewear, top page edge slightly darkened, owner inscription, old bookseller label on front endpaper; jacket is edgeworn, with a few large chips to top edge, spine darkened with a small hole and a tear. An evaluation of the various Victorian literary personalities, as well as chapters on Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant.