Description

Gerald Howe, Ltd. London, Representative Women Series [Published Date: 1928]. Hardcover, 96 pp. No other printings listed. In acceptable+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with bold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing and nicking to cloth along edges with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Previous owner's name and date (Christmas 1928) in ink on front free end paper. Moderate to heavier age spotting on endpapers and half-title page. Remainder of text is lightly aged with occasional light spotting, but otherwise unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of EBB by J. Gower Parks. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. A nice reading copy. Written in 1928, Irene Cooper Willis exemplifies the Edwardian and modernist reaction against literary works associated with Victorian parents and grandparents, describing the Victorians as 'hideously' moral, and EBB as a 'true mid-Victorian' who was 'inspired by piety, as well as ruled by it'. [From The Times Literary Supplement 1928] "[Willis] never indulges in a fashionable and facile irony . . . The interpretation is at once just and sympathetic." Contents include: The Victorian Attitude; A Heavy Heart; The Prison Wall; Not Death - but Love; Italy.