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English Spinster: A Portrait
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Dust Jacket Protection: | N/A |
| Signature: | None |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Chapman & Hall |
| Publication Year: | 1939 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 030368 |
| Catalogue(s): | Fiction - General |
382pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on front and spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed corners, rubbed spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Free endpapers starting to tan; previous owner's name on front free endpaper; gutters cracked and strained, volume quite loose; pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat and clean.
A semi-fictionalised account of the life of Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) told in novel form. Mitford, an Englist essayist, poet and writer is perhaps best remembered for Our Village, a series of sketches of village life drawn from her experiences of living in Three Mile Cross near Reading, Berkshire.
