Author: MANN, MARY E.(1848 - 1929) .
Title: Gran'Ma's Jane By Mary E. Mann .
Description: London : Methuen & Co, 36 Essex Street, 1903 . 0. A very good full leather binding by "Hatchards". First edition. 8vo. pp.vii./[1p.]/pp. 305 Polished green calf. Front boardSpine with 5 raised bands, gilt titles, publication date and, gilt decorated compartments. Gilt stamped signature to front board: "Elizabeth Cooke." All page edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Gilt binder's stamp to lower edge of the verso of the front board: "Hatchards, 187 Picadilly". Light green marbled endpapers. Clean text throughout. VG. ** "Mary Elizabeth Mann, née Rackham, (14 August 1848 – 19 May 1929) was a celebrated English novelist in the 1890s and early 1900s.: She also wrote short stories, primarily on themes of poverty and rural English life. As an author she was commonly known as Mary E. Mann.. She had four children, one boy and three girls. After her husband's death in 1913 (Fairman Joseph Mann, a farmer), she moved to Sheringham, where she died aged 80. Her grave is in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Shropham. Her grave-marker is a carved open book with the epitaph We bring our years to an end, as if it were a tale that is told.

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