Author: Henry C. Ewart [ed]
Title: True and Noble Women
Description: London, Wm. Isbister, 1888. First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout, this delightfully bound first edition celebrates the virtuous women of the Victorian period. A beautifully bound first edition, giving a biographical account of eleven prominent women of the Victorian period, each praised for being 'true and noble&apos. The women featured include Princess Alice, Baroness Bunsen, Sarah Martin and Queen Victoria herself. Illustrated throughout with full plate and vignette engravings.In author Henry C. Ewart's preface, he foregrounds the importance of Christian faith in assessing the virtue of women, explaining that those featured in this volume 'are all in various degrees witnesses to the spiritual beauty shining out from the highest and the lowliest alike wherever there is a single-eyed devotion to the glory of God&apos.With a contemporary owner's inscription, dated Christmas 1888, to the half title. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Contemporary inscription to half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Women's History Queen Victoria Princess Alice Christianity Queen Victoria Not Stated


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