Author: Shipton,Helen Title: THE COTTAGE NEXT DOOR - the People's Library
Description: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1890 approx) Frontispiece by H.W. or H.M. Cutts + text illustrations. . Octavo blue cloth with black title and pictorial cottage + gilt titled spine (tips rubbed/sl.marked) 192pp +8pp publisher's catalogue dated 18-3-91. Ownership R. Heath on endpaper else neat and tight. *An unusual story of a bullying husband and his half brother who is their neighbor and a rough bad lad. He tries to intervene but it all goes wrong. An interesting sub theme is a shy vicar who only at the end learns to assert himself and thereby becomes more helpful to his flock.
Keywords: Victorian moral story drink temperance
Price: GBP 9.00 = appr. US$ 12.85 Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books
- Book number: J70445
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