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Erckmann, Emile and Alexandre Chatrian
Madame Therese; or, the Volunteers of '92. By MM. Erckmann-Chatrian. Translated from the Thirteenth Edition [by Charlotte L. Forten].
New York: Charles Scribner, 1869. First American edition. BAL 8268 (T. W. Higginson). 8vo, originalgreen cloth, gilt decorations and lettering. Ten plates. ¶ A popular and highly regarded French novel, written in collaboration by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian, but most notable in this edition for its translator, an African-American woman from Philadelphia, Charlotte L. Forten, later Grimke (1827-1914), who attended Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Grammar School in Salem, Mass, taught former slaves in South Carolina and was an active abolitionist in Philadelphia and Washington. She published numerous essays and sketches in the Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere, but this translation stands as her only published book. Higginson has written a six-page introduction, which discusses the collaboration between these two French novelists and at the conclusion notes that the translation is "better than the average of such literary work." Slight damp-stain in a few margins; cloth a little worn; modern ink inscription on the front blank; very good copy.
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