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George Eliot, 1859
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Adam Bede
George Eliot, 1859
ELIOT, George (1819-1880). Adam Bede. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859.
First edition of Eliot’s first novel. Published under Mary Anne Evans’s male pseudonym, in a contemporary review Anne Mozley nevertheless speculated that the novel was in fact written by a woman, suggesting that, “The position of the writer towards every point in discussion is a woman's position.” Baker & Ross A4.1.
Three volumes, octavo. 16 pp. of ads at rear of vol. 3. Original cloth (hinges starting, cloth just a little rubbed); custom box.
George Eliot, 1859
ELIOT, George (1819-1880). Adam Bede. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859.
First edition of Eliot’s first novel. Published under Mary Anne Evans’s male pseudonym, in a contemporary review Anne Mozley nevertheless speculated that the novel was in fact written by a woman, suggesting that, “The position of the writer towards every point in discussion is a woman's position.” Baker & Ross A4.1.
Three volumes, octavo. 16 pp. of ads at rear of vol. 3. Original cloth (hinges starting, cloth just a little rubbed); custom box.
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