Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 246 pages; A compelling volume. Description: xiii, 246 p. , [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Dashwood, Emma. Governesses --Russia --Biography. Russia --History --1904-1914.
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A Russian Upstairs, Downstairs, but one scented with the cordite and fear of revolution, and with a cast of devotedly loyal and capable British governesses. Miss Emmie is an intimate and revealing portrait of pre-Revolutionary Russian society which, contrary to received wisdoms, reveals a complex, liberal and humane society, full of enormous potential and past achievement. It is also the biography of five intrepid women who, by travelling abroad and working as governesses in Russia, achieved an intellectual dignity, a purpose and an authority which was denied them in their homeland. The extraordinary personal adventures of these women, as they negotiate the turmoil and terrifying anarchy of Revolution and Civil War, turns the book into a page-turning thriller.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 246 pages; A compelling volume. Description: xiii, 246 p. , [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Dashwood, Emma. Governesses --Russia --Biography. Russia --History --1904-1914. 1 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 95732
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 246 pages; A compelling volume. Description: xiii, 246 p. , [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Dashwood, Emma. Governesses --Russia --Biography. Russia --History --1904-1914. 1 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 95732
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1977. Tight. firm, very lighly used copy. No D/J. Boards have a removable clear protective wrapper which has been sellotaped (small staining to opposite pages) to inside cover, so are clean with bright gilt titles on spine. The tanned pages have been very lightly used so in excellent condition being crisp, clean & free of any inscription/annotations or creases. Nice, solid copy. We endeavour to send orders as quickly as possible & in most cases are sent by first available post 6 days a week. (401-390). N° de réf. du vendeur QI-K2CP-06BT
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