HAUNTED ROOMS. A TALE [later THE HAUNTED ROOM. A TALE]. By A. L. O. E. .

Tucker, Charlotte Maria, writing as "A. L. O. E.," i.e. "A Lady of England."

Edité par T. Nelson and Sons, London, 1876

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Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [9] 10-341 [342: blank] [343-352: ads], publisher's decorated bevel-edged brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, black coated endpapers. First edition, first printing. The rare first printing. The title page, dated 1876, gives the novel's title as HAUNTED ROOMS. A TALE (as does the half title and the title at beginning of chapter I), while the binding title for the book is THE HAUNTED ROOM A TALE. Nelson's reprints used the cover title. "An interesting tale, intended to warn against nervous and superstitious fears and weakness, and show remedy of Christian courage and presence of mind" (publisher's catalogue description). Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893) was "one of the most successful writers of fiction for Victorian children . In 1848, Charlotte underwent a conversion to strict evangelicalism. Her father died in 1851, and she never married, devoting herself to a life of useful spinsterdom. Tucker was active in helping the London poor before 1851, but did not publish any fiction until after her father's death. Her first work was the unabashedly didactic CLAREMONT TALES, OR ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BEATITUDES (1852) . The last years of Tucker's life were extraordinary. At the age of fifty-four she went to India as a missionary (having taught herself Hindustani) and spent the last eighteen years of her life as a Zenana visitor (i.e. calling on secluded Indian women). She was also an active educationalist, converting the natives to Christianity as she taught them. She eventually died at Amritsar, having long been weakened by illness in 1885. Some of her later work . has an Indian setting and flavor of narration" (Sutherland). Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, pp. 641-642. Cloth professionally refurbished, hairline crack along inner front hinge skillfully repaired, a very good copy. (#171278).

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• Titre: HAUNTED ROOMS. A TALE [later THE HAUNTED ROOM. A TALE]. By A. L. O. E. .
• Éditeur: T. Nelson and Sons, London
• Date de parution: 1876
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Victorian Fiction