Author: SANDYS (Lucy):
Title: Child Life in Bible Times. (Illustrated).
Description: London: Arthur H. Sotckwell..., Ludgate Hill..., [c. 1908]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 180 x 120 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 194, 12 lithographed plates, original green cloth, with title in and author's name in gilt in gilt on front cover, inscription on front paste-down end-paper, "Eleanor Miller / from Mrs Mee"; upper front hinge slightly cracked, spine snagged in two places, paper browned. Lucy Sandys (c.1857-1943) was the daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon Francis William Sandys (1815-1894). Rev. Sandys had been born in Ballymahon, Ireland, and married Elizabeth Moeran, who had been born in County Cork, Ireland . Rev. Sandys emigrated from Ireland to Canada with his family in the mid nineteenth century. Shortly thereafter, Lucy was born. Several of Lucy's siblings were writers or journalists, including her older sister Grace Elizabeth Sandys, later Grace E. Denison (1853-1914), the pioneering woman journalist who wrote also under the name "Lady Gay" in Saturday Night, a popular magazine of the time. Lucy and her family have been said to be direct descendants of Edwin Sandys (1519-1588), Archbishop of York under Elizabeth I. The book was reviewed favourably in more than one magazine upon publication, with, for instance, the Aberdeen Free Press and Publisher's Circular recommending it to readers, according to an advertisement for the book printed in the 18 June 1908 issue of The Primitive Methodist Leader (p. 395). The illustrations are rather good, e. g., the one of David slaying Goliath, which is signed and which appeared in an 1860s Bible; and one of John the Baptist after Andrea del Sarto. Copies located in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, NLS, and Waterloo. Not in O'Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland (1912), nor in Davis and Joyce, Poetry by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers (1991).

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