[Rarebooks] fa: 3 NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN NOVELISTS

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


[Anne Marsh, later Marsh-Caldwell:] Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed and The Admiral's Daughter. In Two Volumes. London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. Second edition, the same year as the first. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period half calf and marbled boards. Sadleir 1626. Rubbing and edge-wear to the bindings, leaves lightly toned with occasional small spots and stains, front endpapers with early owner's signature of Jane Tyrwhitt Deake, dated 1838; front paste-downs with the small original bookseller's labels of "J. Seacome, Bookseller & Stationer, Chester [UK]."
The author's first novel. "In her autobiography, Harriet Martineau relates how, when she was spending two days with the Marshes in Kilburn,  Mrs. Marsh asked if she might read aloud 'one or two little stories' she had written. The first to be read was The Admiral's Daughter, which astounded Miss Martineau by its excellence. 'We cried so desperately,' she says, 'that there was no concealing the marks of it.' She introduced the MS. to Saunders & Otley, who at once accepted it. The author's husband insisted on anonymity, lest his several daughters be embarrassed by an unsuccessful novelist-mother."


[Annie Turner, afterwards Tinsley:] The Cruelest Wrong of All. By the author of "Margaret, or Prejudice at Home," &. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, in original publisher's blind-stamped pebbled cloth, professionally rebacked with the with gilt-lettered backstrip retained; [4], 339, [1], 5-12 pp.; with the half-title and publisher's adverts (numbered pp. 5-12). Darkening and soiling to the binding; early owners' inscriptions on the front flyleaf (one crossed out), occasional small light spots and touches of soiling to the leaves, else clean and sound, very firmly bound. Not in Sadleir; OCLC locates only 6 copies in institutions worldwide.


[Anne Elliott:] An Old Man's Favour. By the author of "Dr. Edith Romney," "My Wife's Niece." London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1887. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 8vo, half navy cloth and patterned boards. Bindings somewhat worn but still attractive; rubbing to the edges and extremities, darkening and creases to the spines, some areas of discoloration to the patterned boards; browning and spotting to the endpapers and title-pages, light toning to the rest of the text blocks, with a few scattered small spots; early owner's penciled signature to title of vol. I.
First edition of the author's third novel. Not in Sadleir; OCLC locates only 8 copies in institutions worldwide. Anne Elliott is a fairly obscure figure among nineteenth-century women novelists, but she was apparently rather prolific, publishing at least fourteen works between 1883 and 1912.