Antique (Undated : 1880s) Beauty's Daughters by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford.
Victorian Romance Novel. Famously wrote under the pseudonym "The Duchess". Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855-1897), an Irish novelist best known for her novel molly Bawn and for popularizing the phrase "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Victorian society, the story follows the romantic lives, social expectations, and courtships of two exceptionally beautiful sister navigating love and class differences.
Binding is showing in the back, book intact. Pages show discoloration + are brittle. Gilt band on spine. Distress + discoloration to cover. Publisher : Frank F. Lovell & Co. 142 and 144 Worth Street, New York. Based on the address and publisher, this is an American reprint edition from the late 1800s or early 1890s. Aldine Edition, bound in an ornate late-Victorian stamped cloth cover typical of Frank F. Lovell & Co. releases from circa 1888-1890.
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Antique (Undated : 1880s) Beauty's Daughters by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford.
Victorian Romance Novel. Famously wrote under the pseudonym "The Duchess". Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855-1897), an Irish novelist best known for her novel molly Bawn and for popularizing the phrase "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Victorian society, the story follows the romantic lives, social expectations, and courtships of two exceptionally beautiful sister navigating love and class differences.
Binding is showing in the back, book intact. Pages show discoloration + are brittle. Gilt band on spine. Distress + discoloration to cover. Publisher : Frank F. Lovell & Co. 142 and 144 Worth Street, New York. Based on the address and publisher, this is an American reprint edition from the late 1800s or early 1890s. Aldine Edition, bound in an ornate late-Victorian stamped cloth cover typical of Frank F. Lovell & Co. releases from circa 1888-1890.
Price Includes Shipping.
