The Romance of Private Life: The Renunciation and The Hermitage [Three Volume Set]

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Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Marbled paper covered boards. Light wear to some of the gilt on the spines. A few spots of soil. Old bookplate. Mild spots of foxing on preliminary pages. Sarah Harriet Burney (29 August 1772 - 8 February 1844) was an English novelist, the daughter of musicologist and composer Charles Burney, and half-sister of the novelist and diarist Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay). This was her last work, published five years before her death in 1844. This appears to be the only copy of this scare book on the market. About fifteen years ago the book was rediscovered by American feminists and new printings appeared.Charles Lamb was a personal friend. The Romance of Private Life were sparsely reviewed, although there was an American edition in 1840. Contains two tales - "The Renunciation", which presents a colourful picture of life abroad, when an English girl travels to Italy in search of kin and supports herself as an artist, offering an early feminist heroine; and, "The Hermitage", a psychological thriller involving a ruined country maiden and an unsolved murder. Interest in Sarah Burney's work began to revive as part of a general, in some cases feminist interest in all women writers of this period. This was supported by some reprint editions a few years ago, and more importantly, by a meticulous critical edition of The Romance of Private Life, which appeared in 2008. Her letters have also been collected. An extremely scarce set of the original first edition. N° de ref. del artículo 025563

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