Author: Rutherfoord, Mary. (Ed Joyce Murray).
Title: In Mid-Victorian Cape Town. Letters from Miss Rutherfoord.
Description: Balkema. Cape Town 1968. Quarter vellum on marbled boards. 167pp illustrated b/w. tall 12mo. No inscription, 4 square corners. A particularly attractive reprint of the 1953 edition is a near Fine copy, no dustwrapper. With the marriage of her elder sister in 1852, Mary Rutherfoord carried out the household duties assisting her mother until her own marriage to Andrew Murray in 1856. The letters written during these 4 years give a picture of a happy life in comfortable circumstances in the family home in Sea Point, which had a garden onto the beach and stretching behind up the mountain slopes. This illustrated edition shows author's pencil sketches from her 1856 sketch-book.

Keywords: biography autobiography african south african southern cape town sea point mary rutherfoord


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