Author: CAREY, ROSA NOUCHETTE
Title: The Search for Basil Lyndhurst
Description: New York: John W. Lovell, Company, 1900. 1st Printing. Hardcover. C1900. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book covers are illustrated with black decoratoins and the image of a gryphon on both the front cover and spine of the book. The endpapers are illustrated with flowers and the text pages are clean, but have generalized toning. "Nellie's Memories appears to have sold over 50,000 copies. Most of her 33 three-decker novels told pious, domestic stories, thought of as wholesome fiction for girls in the last third of the 19th century. Often sentimental, they reflect the values of the period, "treating housekeeping and woman's caring role as real work." However, her 1869 novel Wee Wifie features vitriol-throwing, opium addiction, and hereditary insanity. Also notable are Carey's sympathetic portrayals of women suffering from mental illness. Several novels suggest mental health can be ensured by "control of the will", as advocated by the psychiatrist Henry Maudsley. One of her books, Heriot's Choice (1879) , was serialised in Charlotte M. Yonge's magazine The Monthly Packet and another, Mistress of Brae Farm (1896) in Argosy. She was a less intellectual, religious and humorous writer than Yonge, but placed her characters shrewdly in the populous urban, book-buying middle class" (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Rosa Nouchette Carey Moralism Women
See more books from our catalog: Modern Fiction
Title: The Search for Basil Lyndhurst
Description: New York: John W. Lovell, Company, 1900. 1st Printing. Hardcover. C1900. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book covers are illustrated with black decoratoins and the image of a gryphon on both the front cover and spine of the book. The endpapers are illustrated with flowers and the text pages are clean, but have generalized toning. "Nellie's Memories appears to have sold over 50,000 copies. Most of her 33 three-decker novels told pious, domestic stories, thought of as wholesome fiction for girls in the last third of the 19th century. Often sentimental, they reflect the values of the period, "treating housekeeping and woman's caring role as real work." However, her 1869 novel Wee Wifie features vitriol-throwing, opium addiction, and hereditary insanity. Also notable are Carey's sympathetic portrayals of women suffering from mental illness. Several novels suggest mental health can be ensured by "control of the will", as advocated by the psychiatrist Henry Maudsley. One of her books, Heriot's Choice (1879) , was serialised in Charlotte M. Yonge's magazine The Monthly Packet and another, Mistress of Brae Farm (1896) in Argosy. She was a less intellectual, religious and humorous writer than Yonge, but placed her characters shrewdly in the populous urban, book-buying middle class" (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Rosa Nouchette Carey Moralism Women
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45436
- Book number: 45436
See more books from our catalog: Modern Fiction