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Swamp Angel: A Novel
by Ethel Wilson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Lexington, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Harper and Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . Some discoloring, light wear, library stamp on the front flyleaf. Foxing to the jacket and endpapers but a good solid reading copy. The jacket has some staining and wear; taped inside the cover with darkened tape. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 200303. .
Synopsis
Ethel Wilson was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1888. She was taken to England at the age of two after her mother died. Seven years later her father died, and in 1898 she came to Vancouver to live with her maternal grandmother. She received her teacher’s certificate from the Vancouver Normal School in 1907 and taught in many local elementary schools until her marriage in 1921. In the 1930s Wilson published a few short stories and began a series of family reminiscences which were later transformed into The Innocent Traveller . Her first published novel, Hetty Dorval , appeared in 1947, and her fiction career ended fourteen years later with the publication of her story collection, Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories . Through her compassionate and often ironic narration, Wilson explores in her fiction the moral lives of her characters. For her contribution to Canadian literature, Wilson was awarded the Canada Council Medal in 1961 and the Lorne Pierce Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 1964. Her husband died in 1966, and she spent her later years in seclusion and ill-health. Ethel Wilson died in Vancouver in 1980.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Easy Chair Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200303
- Title
- Swamp Angel: A Novel
- Author
- Ethel Wilson
- Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- BZDB23 Fiction; Unbranded Ethel Wilson Swamp Angel: A Novel
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