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Eminent Victorian Women
by Longford, Elizabeth
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1981. First US Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback First American Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Internals in Fine Condition.Illustrated with more than 120 photographs, drawings, and paintings, 34 in full color. Burgundy cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles to spine is quite clean with discoloration to lower spine edge, gently bumped lower front corner. Rear cover also has discoloration streak. Sewn binding is tight, solid and square. Elizabeth Longford examines the lives of these eminent Victorian women: the Brontes, Florence Nightingale, Ellen Terry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Josephine Butler, Annie Besant, Mary Kingsley, James Barry(she wanted to be a doctor but as a woman she couldn't, so--). Each of these women struggled to be what they wanted to be in an era that tried to tell them what to be. In these studies of each woman, Longford helps us understand the forces that created them and with which they had to contend in order to realize the extraordinary potential within them. 255 pages, indexed, with select bibliography. 7.5 x9.9 inches. 1981, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-237)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025271
- Title
- Eminent Victorian Women
- Author
- Longford, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 4to - over 9?" - 12" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORY, ENGLAND VICTORIAN AGE
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- Biography. Autobiography;
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