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294 pages, Paperback
129x198mm, Portrait





ISBN-10: 0948695633
ISBN-13: 9780948695636
 
Hand and Glove
 
A dramatic and unusual love story set in a small French Protestant community, written with humour, passion and acute insight.
Amelia Edwards - Born in London to an Irish mother and a father who had been a British Army officer, Edwards published a variety of poetry, stories and articles in a large number of magazines and newspapers. Her early novels were well received, but it was Barbara's History(1864), a novel of bigamy, that solidly established her reputation as a novelist. In the winter of 1873-1874 Edwards toured Egypt, discovering a fascination with the land and its cultures. Having returned home, Edwards proceeded to write a vivid description of her Nile voyage, publishing the resulting book in 1876 under the title of A Thousand Miles up the Nile. Enhanced with her own hand-drawn illustrations, the travelogue became an immediate bestseller.

Related title(s):
Barbara's History By Amelia Edwards