A Lady of Quality: Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth and Thomas Lawrence. Clorinda Wildairs is raised as a boy by a drunken squire, turns at fifteen into the handsomest woman in the county, and marries a rich old earl — and then a man from her riding years comes back to say what he knows. Burnett wrote it for adults in 1896, and the book was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic for a violence at its centre that nobody had expected from her. What follows the violence is not remorse but management. Fifty-nine plates after Gainsborough, Stubbs, Romney and their contemporaries bring the fields, hounds and country faces of Clorinda's riding years into the book.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth and Thomas Lawrence. Clorinda Wildairs is raised as a boy by a drunken squire, turns at fifteen into the handsomest woman in the county, and marries a rich old earl — and then a man from her riding years com...
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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was an English-American writer born in Manchester who emigrated to Tennessee at sixteen and began publishing to support her family. She wrote for adults and children and successfully sued over an unauthorised stage version, changing British copyright law. Her works include Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, and His Grace of Osmonde.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was an English-American writer born in Manchester who emigrated to Tennessee at sixteen and began publishing to support her family. She wrote for adults and children and successfully sued over an unauthorised stage version, changing British copyright law. Her w...
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