Amelia : the tale of a plain friend

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Menzies-Wilson, Jacobine and Helen Lloyd. Amelia : the tale of a plain friend. London: Oxford University Press, October 1940. The Oxford Bookshelf. Hardback, VG. Brown cloth, darkened to spine and edges; red lettering and decoration to front and spine. Binding strong. Front pastedown with ownership signature. Small ownership stamp to fep. Light foxing to endpapers. Frontispiece b/w reproduction of portrait. xii, 299pp., b/w plates. Contents clean and bright. Amelia Opie (née Alderson; 12 November 1769 2 December 1853) was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. A Bluestocking, Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, England. Hers was the first of 187,000 names presented to the British Parliament on a petition from women to stop slavery. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1690490015053

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