The Infidel Father; by the Author of "A Tale of the Times," "A Gossip s Story," &c. In Three Volumes.

[WEST, JANE].

Edité par London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, for T. N. Longman, and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, 1802.

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3 vols., 12mo. Without the half-titles, but with three pages of publishers advertisements at the end of Vol. II. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, double morocco labels on spines; a couple of short splits to the joints, but a sound and attractive set. Early signatures on titles of "Christina Anderson St. Germains" (St. Germains is a Georgian house in East Lothian), and the later bookplates of Eleanor Holmes Hinkley (see below). First edition, a novel which one recent scholar has described as a "re-education of masculine norms" (Megan A. Woodworth, Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Gentleman s Liberation Movement, 2016). The infidel father is the scheming and caddish Lord Glanville, whose seductions and illegal marriages are ultimately exposed, and who throughout is contrasted with a hero who is, as Woodworth puts it, "less performative and more informed by genuine feeling and goodness." Garside et al., English Novel, 1802:60; Block, English Novel, p. 250; Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 7111. Eleanor Holmes Hinkley was first cousin to T.S. Eliot and author of plays including Dear Jane, an adaptation of Jane Austen s life, and Mrs. Aphra Behn.

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• Titre: The Infidel Father; by the Author of "A Tale of the Times," "A Gossip s Story," &c. In Three Volumes.
• Éditeur: London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, for T. N. Longman, and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, 1802.
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale