DIXON (Ella Hepworth) as "Margaret Wynman".

My Flirtations. With 13 illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge.

London, Chatto and Windus. 1892 Original decorated salmon-pink cloth. 8vo. pp. [4], 167. Ella Dixonwas a journalist by profession. She wrote a number of short stories and one novel, "The Story of a Modern Woman" (1894) characterised by Professor John Sutherland as "the greatest unread novel of female struggle in the [nineteenth] century." Turning on a woman who tries to live an independent life but who fails as an artist and who eventually loses her lover, the work demonstrates the themes of the New Woman novel of male hypocrisy and female victimisation. "My Flirtations", by contrast, offers a much more light-hearted and amusing approach in showing a young woman dealing with stream of pompous, ridiculous, devious and generally unsatisfactory suitors. When the right man does finally appear, Dixon writes amusingly of the ordeal of house-hunting and furnishing which then ensues. On every list of a young housewife's essential requirements is a mackerel-kettle "...and yet in the flesh, or rather in the metal, the mackerel-kettle for ever eludes us. Fabulous sums are expended in hansom cabs, scouring Tottenham Court Road in pursuit of this phantom article of hardware, and I begin to think that my chances of happiness may be seriously compromised..." 32 pp. advertisements dated May 1892. One corner bumped, some wear to covers. A scarce book: BL, Cambridge and NLS in COPAC; MB only in NUC.

• GBP 450.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: 8681

• Antiquariat: John Hart (GREAT BRITAIN)