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Rara Primeira Edição, ilustrada, encadernação assinada - The Makers of Modern Rome, Mrs Oliphant (Margaret), 1828-1897, 1895, I. Honourable women not a few -- II. The popes who made the papacy -- III. Lo popolo: and the tribune of the people -- IV. The popes who made the city, 507 pages. 16 x 22 cm. PRECIOSA ENCADERNAÇÃO SÉCULO 19 ASSINADA POR UM ATELIÊ LONDRINO. Dois ex-libris, Justus (et) Propositi Tenax de Guy F. Ferrand e Sine Macula de J. B. Casey. Dedicatória de Eleonor Ruth Harris 1896 e assinatura de 1962. Decorações nas bordas internas das capas e 3 cortes dourados. Primeira edição ilustrada por Henry P. Riviere, A.R.W.S., e Joseph Pennell. Leves sinais de tempo, pontos de oxidação em algumas páginas. Importante aquisição. Margaret Oliphant (182897)(née Wilson) was a remarkable writer who published 98 novels, 25 non-fiction works, more than 50 short stories and over 300 articles and reviews in periodicals. She was born in Wallyford on 4 April 1828, and grew up in Lasswade, Glasgow and then Liverpool. Her later writings have strong female characters, and she is considered by many to have been an early feminist. By the 1880s she was known for declaring: I think it is absurd that I should not have a vote, if I want one. She advocated a married women's property act, a mother's right to custody of her children, women doctors and university education for women. Her talents were recognised by Virginia Woolf, who described her autobiography as a most genuine and moving piece of work. She corresponded with R.L. Stevenson and she told him that: I have written because it gave me pleasure, because it came natural to me, because it was like talking or breathing beside the big fact that it was necessary to work for my children. Preciosa aquisição para biblioteca alto-padrão.
