Author: SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876) / E. A. A. (TRANSLATOR: ELIZABETH A. ASHURST ) .
Title: The Mosaic Workers; A Tale. To Which Is added The Orco; A Tradition. Translated From The French of George Sand By E. A. A.
Description: London: H.G. Clarke And Co, 66, Old Bailey, 1844 . 0. First edition in English, translated by E.A.A. (Elizabeth [Eliza] A. Ashurst). A very good full leather binding. 16mo. 5.25" x 3.5" x 0.5". pp.190/[2pp. - Adverts - Clarke's Home Library] . Gilt decorated plum morocco. Spine carefully repaired with similar gilt decoration. All page edges gilt. Original yellow endpapers, lightly soiled. Additional chromo-lithograph title-page: "The Mosaic Workers. A Tale Of Venice..". Clear English text throughout on lightly toned paper. VG ** A translation of: : Maitres mosaistes and L'Orco. *** "Elizabeth "Eliza" Ann Ashurst Bardonneau (8 July 1813 – 25 November 1850) was a member of an important family of radical activists in mid-nineteenth-century England and the first translator of George Sand's work into English. The family supported causes ranging from women's suffrage to Italian unification. The initial translations of Sand's works were done by Hays, Ashurst, and Larken. La Derniere Aldini, the first volume, was translated by Hays. Ashurst translated Les Maitres mosaistes and it was published in 1844. Mazzini wrote a preface for Ashurt's translation of Lettres d'un voyageur. Sand, at Mazzini's urging, invited Ashurt to her home in Nohant. Olive Class reported that "Sand was unsettled by the superficial display of feminist rebellion exhibited by her as yet still unmarried disciple and characterized her as 'a prude without modesty' .. She was a dear friend to the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini until her early death. Mazzini and the Ashurst family grew close, and Mazzini considered himself part of the Ashurst family, calling the Ashurst daughters "sister". Eliza, though, may have wished to have been more than a loving sister. His letters to her are reprinted in E. F. Richards' collection: Mazzini's Letters to an English Family. In 1840 she, her sister Matilda and her father attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London although she would not have been permitted to speak as the women were not regarded as full delegates. She met a French artist in Paris in 1847 or 1848, fell in love and married Jean Bardonneau, Esquire (Also known as Bardonneau–Narcy), against the wishes of Mazzini and her family. While living in Paris, she miscarried and later died in childbirth on 25 November 1850. It was Mazzini who relayed the sad news to her sisters Emilie Ashurst Hawkes (later Venturi) and Matilda Ashurst Biggs, who were in Genoa at the time. Her brother William Henry Ashurst, Jr. and sister Caroline were en route to Paris to attend to her, but Elizabeth died before they made it to Paris. While in Paris they were very unhappy about the burial and burial place for their sister. They later had her body sent back to England for burial in the Highgate Cemetery, where they had a family vault. Her premature death cut short a life devoted to radical causes." - See Wikipedia.

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