A Victorian Courtship.The Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardback. A Victorian Courtship. Message to previous owner to inside cover. She was a handsome heiress - one of the remarkable Potter sisters - dedicated to an independent and productive live as a social worker. Webb was a hairdresser's son from leicester Square, with cockney vowels and the look of a saloonkeeper. When Beatrice and Sidney met in 1890 they were both recovering from unhappy love affairs. All the odds seemed to be against this unlikely match. But as the author shows in her moving account, illustrated wuth many extracts from the intimate letters exchanged during their secret engagement, within two years Sidney and Beatrice had broken through the barriers of class and convention and begun their extraordinary partnership as authors and politicians. Illustrated. 148 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.