MASSON, Flora. Victorians All
MASSON, Flora. Victorians All. London: Chambers. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the plain blue dust jacket. An about fine copy in the scarce surviving dust jacket, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and square. A few minor spots to the textblock edges and to prelims, else very clean. The dust jacket priced 3/6 net to front flap, complete and fine with spine a trifle faded.
An uncommon volume of important first-hand accounts of notable Victorians, by a woman overshadowed by her parents and her close friend, Florence Nightingale. Masson’s mother was Emily Rosaline Orme, leader of the Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage, her father head of English at Edinburgh University. Their social circles allowed Flora to encounter Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, William Holman Hunt, and many others. Together with her sisters and parents, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, training as a nurse in the meantime, befriending Florence Nightingale, and earning the Royal Red Cross in the First World War. Like this one, her literary work was primarily biographical.
MASSON, Flora. Victorians All. London: Chambers. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the plain blue dust jacket. An about fine copy in the scarce surviving dust jacket, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and square. A few minor spots to the textblock edges and to prelims, else very clean. The dust jacket priced 3/6 net to front flap, complete and fine with spine a trifle faded.
An uncommon volume of important first-hand accounts of notable Victorians, by a woman overshadowed by her parents and her close friend, Florence Nightingale. Masson’s mother was Emily Rosaline Orme, leader of the Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage, her father head of English at Edinburgh University. Their social circles allowed Flora to encounter Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, William Holman Hunt, and many others. Together with her sisters and parents, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, training as a nurse in the meantime, befriending Florence Nightingale, and earning the Royal Red Cross in the First World War. Like this one, her literary work was primarily biographical.
MASSON, Flora. Victorians All. London: Chambers. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the plain blue dust jacket. An about fine copy in the scarce surviving dust jacket, the book clean and bright, the binding tight and square. A few minor spots to the textblock edges and to prelims, else very clean. The dust jacket priced 3/6 net to front flap, complete and fine with spine a trifle faded.
An uncommon volume of important first-hand accounts of notable Victorians, by a woman overshadowed by her parents and her close friend, Florence Nightingale. Masson’s mother was Emily Rosaline Orme, leader of the Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage, her father head of English at Edinburgh University. Their social circles allowed Flora to encounter Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, William Holman Hunt, and many others. Together with her sisters and parents, she campaigned for women’s suffrage, training as a nurse in the meantime, befriending Florence Nightingale, and earning the Royal Red Cross in the First World War. Like this one, her literary work was primarily biographical.