Eleanor Mercein Kelly. Richard Walden's Wife. Chicago: People's Book Club, 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket protected in sleeve. Special edition for People's Book Club Edition. Historical romance set in Maryland and Wisconsin during the Civil War period. Jacket and endpapers are illustrated by John Vickery. Mid-century book.

"The rich and dramatic story of a marriage, of the changes, the experience, the love, the living that filled a lifetime ... " The belle of Maryland's Eastern Shore Society migrates with her husband to frontier Wisconsin ...."

Eleanor Mercein Kelly (1880 - 1968) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She wrote one biographical study, The Chronicle of a Happy Woman: Emily A. Davison (1928), but is best known for her romantic fiction, most of which was set in exotic locales. She was widely traveled, and used her travels as inspiration for her novels. Four of her stories were adapted to film and one on Broadway.

Jacket and endpapers are illustrated by John Vickery (1906-1983), an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Australian artist to have been a part of the New York School.

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