The Forest Sanctuary By Felicia Hemans Handwritten and Leatherbound
(Felicia Hemans)
(85) pages; the poem and with notes following by Felicia Dorothea Hemans [née Browne] (1793-1835) British poet "...In the 1970s and especially the 1980s feminist critics began to find value in her studies of women's situations and women's creativity. In the 1990s historicist critics took up questions of style, poetics, and politics, arguing that these reveal Hemans as a critic of conventions such as patriotism and female self-sacrifice. Hemans is now recognized by many literary historians as the most notable British poet flourishing between the death of Byron and the rise of Tennyson and the Brownings." (Nanora Sweet in the DNB); handwritten throughout in a light sepia ink, in a good later 19th-century hand, with few errors and corrections and rather elegantly presented in a straight-grain full green morocco leather binding, gilt cover titles and roll-tool decorated bordering, spine with gilt rules, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; evidently produced with some painstaking effort and with a bookplate of E.F. Keene laid-in, presenting the book via a handwritten note on the plate to F.E. Keene in 1931, "...on her eighteenth birthday..." from her father; binding with some wear and rubbing, little chipping along spine edge, still firm and sound, a handsome look; very good condition. Very Good (Item ID: 20540)
$150.00
