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The Hand Of Ethelberta - A Comedy In Chapters
by Hardy, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan & Co, 1925. reprint of the Wessex edition.. Hardback. Blue soft leather, VG+. x+480pp, map of wessex, top edge gilt, gilt decoration to the spine, endpapers yellowed, otherwise a nice, near fine copy in slightly rubbed leather. A minor novel by Hardy, which sees a young wife widowed & who thanks to a benefactress is able to gain the attentions of several suitors.
Synopsis
From the book:Young Mrs. Petherwin stepped from the door of an old and well-appointed inn in a Wessex town to take a country walk. By her look and carriage she appeared to belong to that gentle order of society which has no worldly sorrow except when its jewellery gets stolen; but, as a fact not generally known, her claim to distinction was rather one of brains than of blood. She was the daughter of a gentleman who lived in a large house not his own, and began life as a baby christened Ethelberta after an infant of title who does not come into the story at all, having merely furnished Ethelberta's mother with a subject of contemplation. She became teacher in a school, was praised by examiners, admired by gentlemen, not admired by gentlewomen, was touched up with accomp-lishments by masters who were coaxed into painstaking by her many graces, and, entering a mansion as governess to the daughter thereof, was stealthily married by the son. He, a minor like herself, died from a chill caught during the wedding tour, and a few weeks later was followed into the grave by Sir Ralph Petherwin, his unforgiving father, who had bequeathed his wealth to his wife absolutely.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eastleach Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44545
- Title
- The Hand Of Ethelberta - A Comedy In Chapters
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- reprint of the Wessex edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- fiction, literature, wessex novels
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Newbury, Berkshire
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