The girlhood of Shakespeare's heroines : in a series of fifteen tales / by Mary Cowden Clarke, author of the concordance to Shakespeare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898, author.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--In literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 volumes).

Place of Publication:

London : W.H. Smith and Son ; And Simpkin, Marshall and Company, 1850-1852.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

volume 1. Portia; the heiress of Belmont. The Thane's daughter. Helena; the physician's orphan. Desdemona; the magnifico's child. Meg and Alice; the merry maids of Windsor.

v. 2. Isabella; the votaress. Katharina and Bianca; the shrew and the demure. Ophelia; the rose of Elsinore. Rosalind and Celia; the friends. Juliet; the white dove of Verona.

v. 3. Beatrice and Hero; the cousins. Olivia; the lady of Illyria. Hermione; the Russian princess. Viola; the twinches Imogen; the peerless.

Notes:

Each of the fifteen tales has a separate title-page but each volume is paged continuously.

The tales were published from 1850-1852.

Volumes 2 and 3 have ink inscription on front flyleaves.

Bound in blue cloth with gilt ornamentation and lettering.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

Local Notes:

Reproduced from source library: volume 1-2.

OCLC:

891012940

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.