Fairy Fingers. A Novel.

Edité par New York: Carleton, 1865.

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (1819-1870) was an American playwright and novelist born in France. Though she began writing poetry and novels in 1841 to make a living after her husband lost his fortune, her first significant commercial success came in 1845 with her extremely popular play Fashion. Mowatt then made her theatrical debut and was one of America’s most popular actresses for almost a decade. Because Mowatt was well-respected and of high social standing, her popularity as a playwright and actress helped shift public attitudes toward theater. In Woman’s Fiction, Nina Baym writes that Mowatt “is said to have…made attendance at the theater respectable,” (Baym, p. 249). Her other novels include Mimic Life (1856) and Twin Roses (1857). Most of Mowatt’s stories end with the self-sacrificial deaths of her heroines; Baym argues that Mowatt’s tendency toward tragedy diverged from the contemporary conventions of fiction by and about women “because woman’s fiction was designed to show its readers how to live, not how to die” (Baym, p. 250). Her novels garnered praise from such contemporaries as Hawthorne and Poe. She was a founding member of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, the US’s oldest preservation organization. Twelvemo. 460 pp. + [8 publisher’s ads, including publisher’s colophon & epigraph]. Publisher’s brown cloth. Boards blind-bordered, with publisher’s device. Title gilt-stamped on spine. Fading and shelfwear to spine, with cracked cloth at head and foot. Bent tips. Light blue endpapers. Dedication to previous owner on front free endpaper. Moderate foxing throughout. Strong binding. A very good copy. First edition. OCLC lists 38 copies, all on the East Coast. Erroneously described elsewhere as a novel concerning an intrepid young piano player, or the supernatural, Fairy Fingers details the fate of one Madeleine de Gramont. Orphaned at eighteen, she finds herself suddenly living under the watchful eye of her wealthy aunt, the Countess de Gramont, who, in accepting Madeleine as ward, may have been motived “less by a charitable impulse than by pride which would not allow it to be said that her grandniece ever lacked, or had to solicit a home.” Now an “inmate” at Châteu de Gramont, Madeleine (whose latent skill for dress-making gives the novel its title) develops a forbidden attraction to her cousin, Maurice, arranged as he is to marry the Countess’s daughter, Bertha. Baym, Woman’s Fiction, pp. 249-250; The Feminist’s Companion to Literature in English, p. 769-770.…

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Titre
Fairy Fingers. A Novel.
Auteur
[[ Mowatt] Ritchie, Anna Cora.
Éditeur
New York: Carleton, 1865.
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