Author: [EDEN (Emily)]:
Title: The Semi-Detached House. Edited by Lady Theresa Lewis.
Description: London: Richard Bentley..., 1859. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 327 [328 blank], uncut in original blue textured cloth ribbed in white, spine gilt, neatly recased preserving the original white endpapers with binders' ticket of Westley's at the end, early name on front free endpaper, slight signs of use, but a very good well restored copy. Emily Eden (1797–1869) was the twelfth of fourteen children born to William Eden, first Baron Auckland (1744–1814), diplomatist, and his wife, Eleanor Elliot (1758–1818), daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot (1722–1777) of Minto. Pam Perkins in Oxford DNB says of this work, "She also immensely admired Jane Austen, whose writing influenced her own fiction. The Semi-Detached House, Eden's second novel, was published anonymously in 1859 with the help of her lifelong friend Lady Theresa Lewis, who negotiated Eden's terms—no less than £300 and early publication—with Richard Bentley, the publisher. In this lively satirical novel, the pregnant heroine Lady Blanche Chester, whose husband has been posted abroad, shares the middle-class home of the Hopkinsons with the nouveau riche Baron Sampson and his wife. Blanche revises her class prejudices after experiencing the warmth of the Hopkinson family." Eden is often perceived as a or even the natural successor to Jane Austen.

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