The golden sovereign / by Laurence Housman ; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959.

Contributor:

Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901--Drama.

Victoria.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

439 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

City of Oxford : Printed in Great Britain at The Alden Press.

Place of Publication:

London : Jonathan Cape, 1937.

Notes:

Illustrated title page.

With a half-title.

"This collection of Victorian plays is made up of plays which have previously appeared in Palace plays, Cornered poets, Angels and ministers, Possession, Dethronements, Echo de Paris, and Palace scenes."

"'The Golden Sovereign', first published 1937."

"This, in spite of its miscellaneous character, is frankly a Victorian omnibus. It begins with a satire (all fiction) on the Regency period into which Victoria was born ... This is followed by dialogues wherein certain famous characters - literary, political, and social - of the Victorian age are presented. Then follows a satire on that simple faith of our Victorian sisters ... The last section is merely an addition to the thirty Palace Plays, collected under the title of 'Victoria Regina' which have already been published."--Introduction.

Blue cloth covers with embossed silver design design of Queen Victoria on front cover silver lettering on spine.

OCLC:

511135