Author: NOVEL. ROBERTS (Mrs [Margaret])
Title: Duty, A Novel, by the late Mrs Roberts. Author of "Rose and Emily:" Interspersed with Poetry and Preceded by a Character of the Author by Mrs. Opie.
Description: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. First edition, 3 vols., 8vo (171 x 95mm), 212; [2], 199, [1]; [2], 180pp., piece torn from the upper margin of leaf G1 in volume one with partial loss of text to five lines (missing text supplied in facsimile on a loosely inserted leaf), cont. burgundy quarter calf, marbled boards, flat spines, lettered direct ruled in gilt with decorative tool to each compartment, a very nice set. First edition of this posthumously published novel by Margaret Roberts (d. 1813), with a character sketch by her friend and literary executor Amelia Opies, who described Roberts as hereslf a model of duty as a wife and as a schoolmistress. An interesting artefact depicting the early 19th century conventions of womanhood. Roberts was the author of Moral Views; or, the Telescope for Children (1804), and Rose and Emily, or Sketches of Youth (1812). Garside, Raven & Schwöerling, 1814: 47.

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