Author: Mary Vivian Hughes
Title: 1936 a London Girl of the Eighties 1937 a London Home in the Nineties
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1936-1937. First edition. Cloth. A very smart two volume set of first edition works recounting the author's life in London during 1880-1890, with illustrations throughout each. Two first edition works by Vivian Hughes. Both in the original unclipped dust wrappers.Vivian Hughes was an educator and author, and played an important role in expanding and rationalising the teacher-training curriculum. These memoirs make for two of the four that made the series. Hughes stated that the purpose of the books was "to show that Victorian children did not have such a dull time as it usually supposed". A London Girl of the Eighties (1936) - Provides an unparalleled portrait of life in a Victorian women's college. With a monochrome frontispiece and eight plates. A London Home in the Nineties (1937) - Hughes recounts the transitional period of securing a London flat amidst running the Cambridge Training College for Women and travels to Chicago, Canada and Switzerland.With a monochrome frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. In the original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, with light bumping to the head and tails of spines. A couple marks to the boards of 'London Home&apos. Slight fading to the spine to 'London Girl&apos. Dust wrappers are sunned and have chips to the spines. Closed tears to 'London Home' spine. Handling marks to the wraps. Internally, both firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not stated. Very Good Indeed/Good.

Keywords: Memoir Autobiography London Illustrated Autobiography Not stated


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