My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard 

Being a Sequel to "The Love Letters of a Chinese Lady"

By Elizabeth Cooper 

1926 Edition

Illustrated with Tipped In Colour Frontispiece and 12 Photographic Plates

Decorated Hardback Binding with Paper Covered Boards

Eighteen-year-old Kwei-li became My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard when she married. Before the wedding she had not known her husband, but she fell deeply in love with him at first sight. When he is ordered to accompany Prince Chung on his travels abroad, he asks her to write him every day and she happily complies with his wish that she understands as a command. In her letters Kwei-li reports what is going on in the courtyard of home that she shares with his mother and siblings often allowing the love and longing for her husband to seep into her words. Originally published in 1914 this is a sequel to Love Letters of a Chinese Lady written by Elizabeth Cooper. These letters "come out of the confused revolutionary atmosphere of the new China. Kwei-li's patriotism and hatred of the (foreign) grows out of the fact that, as wife of the governor of one of the chief provinces, she had been from the beginning en rapport with the intrigues, the gossip, and the rumours of a revolution which, for intricacy of plot and hidden motive, is incomparable with any previous national chance on record.

Author: Elizabeth Cooper 

Publisher: London: Peter Davies Ltd

Edition: 1926

Condition:  Please see photographs as part of condition report: Bound in the original Decorated Hardback Binding with Paper Covered Boards, extremities rubbed, head and foot of spine lightly bumped, some smudges and marks to binding, pages have toning and spotting/foxing and marks, the binding is tight and the text block remains firm, all plates are present. Fore-edge foxed. 

Information: 20.5cm x 17cm, (8), 11-126, (2)pp

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