Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces...To Which is Prefixed A Memoir of Her Life, including some Extracts from her Correspondence
by BRUNTON (Mary):
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed for Edinburgh, Manners and Miller [and Archibald Constable/ John Murray, London], etc; 1819. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 196 x 12o mms., pp. [v] vi - cxxi [cxxii blank], 195 [ 196 blank], without half-title or portrait (found in some copies), bound in in contemporary diced calf, spine gilt with black label, bound for Collings's Library, Bath, with their early green label on the upper outer margin of the verso of the front free end-paper; corners a little rubbed, but a very good copy. THe work was noticed in The Edinburgh Review for March, 1819, where the reviewer commented largely on the author's life and deeds, finding Emmeline satisfactory as a "broken fragment. Had the author prolonged the study of this adulteress, all hearts must either have inevitably been repelled by the detailed account of her agonies; or they must have been made to feel a fatal sympathy with them. We firmly believe that Mrs Brunton could not have finished such a tale." Commenting on the Collings binder's label, W. S. Mitchell in his 1953 article writes "the smallest so far known to me...remind[s] us of the number of libraries which must have helped to fill the leisure hours of those taking the waters in Bath...." Raven, James, Antonia Forster, Peter Garside, Rainer Schöwerling, The English Novel, 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (OUP 2000), 1819, 28.
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- Title
- Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces...To Which is Prefixed A Memoir of Her Life, including some Extracts from her Correspondence
- Author
- BRUNTON (Mary):
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Edinburgh: Printed for Edinburgh, Manners and Miller [and Archibald Constable/ John Murray, London], etc; 1819
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