Author: HESBA STRETTON
Title: Under the Old Roof
Description: London, Religious Tract Society / RTS. 9999, Not Known. Hardcover. Book, Fawn pictorial cloth; 2 illustrations, drawn & engraved "Whymper" & "W.L.J."; decorated endpapers; 96 pages + 16 page beautiful illustrated catalogue of gift & presentation books. Flyleaf missing; binding dull and worn at corners; some gatherings a little loose; few thumb marks. Previous owner's name dated 1891. Written "to illustrate the great injustice suffered by women prior to the passing of the Married Women's Property Acts. Good reading copy. Fair/No Jacket.

Keywords: Fiction, Novel, Social History Law Women's Interest 19th Century Fiction


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