HUGHES, M. V. London Girl Of The Eighties, 1936 1st Edition
TITLE
London Girl Of The Eighties
AUTHOR
HUGHES, M. V
ILLUSTRATOR
PUBLISHER
LONDON: Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford
YEAR
1936
FORMAT
Hardcover / Cloth
EDITION
1st Edition
DESCRIPTION
The final volume of Mrs Hughes's triology. Lynton Lamb illustrated DJ over blue cloth. Black and white frontis and illustrations. Pages: 308 Size: 8vo 21cm by 14cm
SIGNED
LANGUAGE
English
PROVENANCE
SUMMARY
London Girl Of The Eighties
1936, 1st Edition
AUTHOR
Mary Vivian Hughes, [psuedo: Molly Hughes] was a British author. Daughter of a London stockbroker, she was born Mary Thomas and passed most of her childhood in Canonbury, under the watchful eyes of four older brothers. Her father, a modestly successful stockbroker, became caught up in a financial scandal and committed suicide in 1879. She attended the North London Collegiate School and a Cambridge teachers' training college, and was later awarded her BA in London. Molly Thomas married barrister Arthur Hughes (1857–1918) from Garneddwen in 1897. Hughes is best known for a series of four lively memoirs, A London Child of the 1870s, A London Girl of the 1880s, A London Home in the 1890s, and A London Family Between the Wars. Hughes's stated purpose in these books is "to show that Victorian children did not have such a dull time as is usually supposed." Her books are a valuable source on women's education and women's work in the late Victorian period; in particular, A London Girl of the 1880s provides an unparalleled portrait of life in a Victorian women's college. Some of Hughes's books are illustrated by her own drawings and her brother Charles's paintings.
RESUME
Molly Hughes vividly evokes the small, everyday pleasures of a close family life in Victorian London: joyful Christmases, blissful holidays in Cornwall, escapades with her brothers, schooldays under the redoubtful Miss Buss. The urban counterpart to Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford, there is the same easy intimacy with the reader, the same intensity of recollection. Her college life at Cambridge and her first teaching jobs provide a fascinating glimpse into another world, full of everyday period detail, vividly and humorously told.
POSTAGE
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CONDITION
BOOK
Light wear to lightly bruised corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly soiled cloth. Tightly bound with lightly spotted intact endpapers and firm hinges. Lightly toned unmarked pages and toned text block edges.
DUST JACKET
Heavy wear to upper and lower edges. 2cm tear to upper front spine edge. 4cm tear to lower rear edge. 1cm tears to other spine edge ends. Heavy wear to spine and fold over edges. Chipped corners. Clipped.