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JEWETT, Sarah Orne - The Life of Nancy

Title: The Life of Nancy
Description: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1895. 12mo (7.1 in, 18.1 cm). 322 pp. First edition: Author and naturalist, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) belonged to a community of women artists. Jewett's "Boston marriage" to Annie Fields lasted 30 years. Annie Fields ran a successful literary salon for women writers. Sarah Orne Jewett's novels and short stories focused on women whether strong, isolated, or self-reliant. - Blain, Feminist Companion. OCLC. BAL 10906. 1 of 2,500 copies. Publisher's green cloth with gilt decorations and lettering. Readership: front free endpaper with Sally Foster Eaton dated 1895. Tips lightly rubbed. Remarkably well-preserved, tight, and clean first edition. Near fine .

Keywords: Women

Price: US$ 358.00 Seller: Excelsa Scripta Rare Books
- Book number: 1184

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