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Author Name: Spring, Howard
Title: Winds of the Day
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good +
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Publisher: London Companion Book Club 1965
Seller ID: 002651
351pp - This was Spring's final novel before his death in May 1965. It's the fictional autobiography of the Manchester girl, Alice Openshaw, orphaned at age 12, toward the end of Queen Victoria's reign. As she tells it she's a red-haired, servant girl getting on with life as best she can, first in Manchester and then in Cardiff.
[Robert] Howard Spring (most famed, perhaps for O Absalom! (later My Son, My Son! )) was born in Cardiff, South Wales in 1889, according to the Book for all Reasons web site. He left school at 12 years old to work as an errand boy at a butcher's shop, a job he hated. He later became messenger boy at the South Wales Daily News where he taught himself shorthand and attended night school to improve his education.
Standard CBC cover style in green cloth with gilt titles in a orange oval to the spine. Textblock is immaculate, except for slight soiling of page edges.
History, Manchester, Victorian, Servant,
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