Description

Hardcover, red cloth, no dust-jacket. 318 pages. Bibliography of Mrs. Gaskell’s Writings, Index. Illustrated with frontispiece and 4 plates. Third printing. Some foxing to edges of bulked sheets and first and last pages. Edge-wear to fore-edge of frontispiece, limited to margin, image unaffected. No previous ownership marks, text clean, all illustrations extant and clean. Red cloth binding is solid and very clean. A solid, unmarked copy with no underlining, writing or annotations. A biography of English novelist Mrs. Gaskell, placing her firmly in the context of her time, and examining those women, who like her, gained notoriety during the 19th century. Some of these include Charlotte Bronte, Florence Nightingale, Madam Mohl and the Winkworth sisters. Reminiscent of Ley’s “The Dickens Circle”. Near very good.