 Author Name: Vaizey, Mrs. de Horne; Woolf, Bella Sidney; and Others
Title: The Girl's Realm: From November, 1909 to April, 1910
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good +
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Size: 7 x 10"
Publisher: London Cassell and Company Ltd 1910
Illustrator: Romney, George; Gotch, T. C.; Monseil, Edmund; Hickling, Percy B.; Bacon, H. L.; English, Douglas; Soper, George; Fair, Mary C.; Horrell, Charles; Cowham, H.; Paterson, Malcolm; Jones, Burne; Knowles, G. Sheridan; Hunt, W. Holman; Botticelli; Raphael Etc
Seller ID: 005863
528pp inc original tissue-protected frontis and a profusion of b&w illustrations - The 1909-1910 bound semi-annual volume of The Girl's Realm. "Contains Two Long Serial Stories" - "Etheldreda the Ready" by Mrs de Horne Vaizey and "The Mystery of Maribel" by Bella Sidney Woolf (Lady Bella Southorn). Woolf was the sister of Leonard Sidney Woolf, Virginia Woolf's husband. Bella was a writer in her own right, perhaps best known as the author of the children's book "The Twins in Ceylon" and its sequel "More About the Twins in Ceylon". Vaizey, (pseud of Jessie Mansergh, née Bell, 1857 - 1917). Vaizey, a Liverpool girl born and bred. Her short stories began to appear in magazines in 1894, pretty much because 12-year-old daughter, Gwyneth Alice, found an unpublished manuscript in a drawer, entered it in a short story competition winning a Mediterranean cruise. She continued writing novels and short stories (mostly for children) throughout the rest of her life. Some of the other writers whose work is featured in this volume are: Alice Corkran was author of the popular "Adventures of Mrs Wishing to Be" in the 1880s, which is said to be reminiscent of works by Blyton and Lewis Carroll. Katharine Tynan, pseudonym of novelist and poet Katharine Hinkson ((1861 - 1931) Irish-born novelist and poet. According to Wikipedia, Tynan was a close associate of William Butler Yeats for a while. It is said that he may have proposed marriage and been rejected, around 1885. She is said to have written more than 100 novels and five autobiographical volumes. Artists represented in this volume include: Monseil (possibly Edmund Monseil of Poland (1897-1962), T C Gotch, George Romney ((1734 - 1802) English portrait painter. In 1755 he went to Kendal (UK) to learn painting from a Cumberland artist by the name of Christopher Steele, and within two years was becoming well-known as a portraitist, according to Wikipedia), and George Soper. Covers (green cloth with black titles and floral decor to front board and gilt titled spine) are a bit edgeworn and rubbed with some soiling (esp to rear board). School prize certificate dated 1914 to FPDP. Frontis' protective tissue is creased and soiled and partially detached. Some splitting starting to several hinges otherwise clean and tight.
George Romney, T. C. Gotch, Monseil(?); Percy B. Hickling, H. L. Bacun(?), Douglas English, George Soper, Mary C. Fair, Charles Horrell, H. Cowham, Malcolm Paterson, Burne Jones, G. Sheridan Knowles, W. Holman Hunt, Botticelli, Raphael, Olive Allen, Mrs deHorne Vaizey, Bella Sidney Woolf, Helen H. Watson, Evelyn Everett Green, Alice Corkran, Tom Gallon, Mrs C. N. Williamson, Olaf Baker, Katharine Tynan, Sarah A. Tooley, Gladys Beattie Crozier, Evelyn Sharp, Stories, Poems, Plays, Raymond Jacberns, Edith E. Sayers, John K. Leys, "Cut-Cavendish", Holidays, Christmas, Henry E. Dudeney, Puzzles, Mrs C. N. Williamson, Gladys Beattie Crozier, Winifred Burnand, Madge S. Smith, M. F. Hutchinson, E. M. Dinnis, Leslie Mary Oyler, Lacrosse, Ernest Sewell, Marionettes, V. M. Methley, Bessie Marchant, Mariel Metcalfe, Knitting, Helen Marvin, Edna Wallace, Alice Corkran, Katharine Tynan,
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