Short Stories for Children

[ Tonna ], Charlotte Elizabeth
Publisher Gall and Inglis,
Binding Hardback
Condition Good copy
SKU 22201
Notes Blue cloth has gilt decorations and gilt titles to spine, gilt decorated titles to front with black decorations, and blind impressed decorations to the back. Bevelled edges to boards. Gilt to all edges. Split in cloth about 1.5 inches long to front hinge with some attendant fraying. Faint marks to front. Significant colour loss to fore-edges of both boards. Ffep has been torn out. Text is clean. binding has some movement (from damaged front endpaper) but remains sound.

Description

Hardback. 110pp. Victorian children's literature by Charlotte Elizabeth (born Browne, then Phelan and later Tonna). English born Charlotte Elizabeth married an Irishman, and began her writing career in Dublin. She wrote extensively on women’s rights as well as in the service of evangelical Protestant thought. Tona wrote only under her Christian names as she wish to hide her income from her abusive then-husband, Phelan which prior to the Married Women's Property Act 1882 would have belonged to him.
Price: £22.00
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