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Pretension / by Sarah Stickney, author of "Poetry of life" ; [Six lines of quotation] ; in two volumes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799-1872, author.
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Education--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Women.
- Women--Social conditions--Fiction.
- Women--Conduct of life--Fiction.
- Social values--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Social values.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes, plate) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- E.L. Carey & A. Hart
- Notes:
- Critical of "the education of the middle classes of females in Great Britain ... which substitutes the artificial for the real, the glittering for the substantial, and the ornamental for the good."--Preface, p. [vii]-viii.
- "Griggs & Co., printers."--versos of title pages.
- Frontispiece to v. 1, signed: Painted by John Wood; engraved by H. Cook. Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 65 Cornhill.
- Vol. 1: x, [1], 12-204 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 203, [1] p. Last page of v. 2 blank.
- With half-titles; in v. 1 bound after title page.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162520951
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