MORSE, Eleanor. She Left Her Husband. London: Hutchinson. 1934. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket designed by Wood. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, gently bumped at the corners, the binding tight and slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel, with several noticeable closed tears, small chips and creases to most corners and spine tips, with a vertical crease along the front panel. Nevertheless uncommon.
This obscure author’s third novel after the well-received The Middle Child (1932) and The Doll (1933)—the volume dated here by the 56pp publisher’s catalogue to rear. With similar themes to her three other novels, this one follows a woman led into a depressingly monotonous marriage, overbearing live-in mother-in-law and all. With her own father’s death comes healthy inheritance, and our protagonist wastes no time, packing her bags and buying a rural farmhouse.
MORSE, Eleanor. She Left Her Husband. London: Hutchinson. 1934. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket designed by Wood. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, gently bumped at the corners, the binding tight and slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel, with several noticeable closed tears, small chips and creases to most corners and spine tips, with a vertical crease along the front panel. Nevertheless uncommon.
This obscure author’s third novel after the well-received The Middle Child (1932) and The Doll (1933)—the volume dated here by the 56pp publisher’s catalogue to rear. With similar themes to her three other novels, this one follows a woman led into a depressingly monotonous marriage, overbearing live-in mother-in-law and all. With her own father’s death comes healthy inheritance, and our protagonist wastes no time, packing her bags and buying a rural farmhouse.
