Author: DEANE, MARION, ED.
Title: Belmont Castle Or Suffering Sensibility Theobold Wolfe Tone & Divers Hands
Description: Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1998. First Edition (?). Softcover. ISBN: 1901866068. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. "Among the possessions seized from Theobold Wolfe Tone upon his arrest I 1798 were two copies of 'Belmont Castle', the epistolary novel he wrote and published with his friends Richard Jebb and John Radcliffe in 1790...satirizing the lives of several prominent figures of the Anglo-Irish establishment and redressing a painful love affair from Tone's past...in a tour de force of scholarly recovery, Marion Deane's introduction and annotations guide us through a labyrinth of truth, half-truth and innuendo. Deane shows that Tone composed more than half the novel...based on Tone's own infatuation with Lady Elizabeth Vesey...shedding new light on the lives of the great and good...and on Tone himself in the years before he embraced revolutionary politics". ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2; 143 pages; Cover has shelf wear, bumping, rubbing.. Near Fine .

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