Author: SHARP, MARGERY
Title: Britannia Mews
Description: Boston: Little, Brown, 1946. Hardcover. ISBN: 999741358X. Book Club Edition; 12 X 2 X 12 inches; 378 pages; Brown cloth cover with gold lettering on spine. Covers have some rubbing, sunning, bumping, fading. DJ has rubbing, sunning, nicking, shelf wear, tears; intact in a mylar cover. This is a book club edition. Pages are clean and tight. Laid in is a leaflet regarding this title, from 'The Book-of-the-Month-Club.' previous owner's name neatly written on half title page. 'Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it's no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide Culver is fascinated by what goes on there. Years later, Adelaide shocks her family when she falls in love with an impoverished artist and moves into the mews. But violence shatters Adelaide's dreams. In a dangerous new world, she must fend for herself--until she meets a charismatic stranger and her life takes a turn she never expected. A novel about social manners and mores reminiscent of Edith Wharton, this story of love, family, and the price one must pay for throwing off the shackles of convention is also a witty and incisive dissection of the "upstairs, downstairs" English class system of the last two centuries. '. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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