17214 Victorian Red cloth with long

Red cloth with long

Gothic novelist

Her satirical novel Red Pottage (1899) was a success but was denounced as immoral

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Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters brought to film by Andrew Davies

17214 Victorian Red cloth with longThis play was inspired by a remark of A. A. Milne about how Jane Austen talked like Elizabeth Bennet, "of course" and of a desire to see Jane walking and talking. Based largely on Austen's letters, augmented by family tradition and the letters of Eliza de Feuillide. Very well preserved, with some light wear to the jacket (now in mylar) and a bookplate of a previous owner in the front. Duckworth, London. 1939 first edition. Hb, Dj. USED. $50. 00