Author: LAGARDE, Ernest
Title: Shakespeare: A Lecture
Description: Boston, Thomas B. Noonan & Co, 1891. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff yellow printed wrappers. 36pp. Very good. Outer wrappers rather age toned and edgeworn, with some minor archival edge mends (on verso); rear wrapper a contemporary replacement. First and only edition of this 1880-81 lecture in pamphlet form. Lagarde (1836-1914) was a Creole journalist, academic and publisher who spent most of his scholarly career (1869-1914) as Chair of Modern Languages and English Literature at Mount Saint Mary College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He boldly inscribes and signs the front flyleaf "To Sister Juliana Chatard / with respects & compliments / of her sincere friend, / the author, / Ernest Lagarde / 'At the Mount / Feby '92." Recipient Chatard (1833-1917) entered the Daughters of Charity religious order in 1857; after a harrowing career tending injured soldiers in Richmond during the Civil War, she became a noted education leader, and when not serving in New York, Alabama and elsewhere she spent much of her career at St. Joseph's Central House in Emmitsburg. (Bottom of same flyleaf bears second gift inscription to "Sr. Chas. Borromeo / from Sr. Mary Keefe" -- perhaps St. Charles Borromeo Church in Pikesville, Maryland? This same inscription faintly inked at top of front wrapper.) Errata slip tipped in at front noting two corrections also bears an inked-in third correction, possibly in Lagarde's hand. An unusual inscribed copy of this seldom-seen pamphlet. .

Keywords: Literary Criticism


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