Author: [Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts [1814 - 1906]. Osborne, Charles C. - Editor
Title: LETTERS Of CHARLES DICKENS to The BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS.; With a Biographical Introduction
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc, 1932. 1st edition. Black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Dust jacket. xii, 204, [8] pp (including Index). 8vo. VG+ (top edge dusty/offset to eps)/Abt VG (some edgewear/chipping @ hd & tail of spine). "Burdett-Coutts spent the majority of her wealth on scholarships, endowments, and a wide range of philanthropic causes. One of her earliest philanthropic acts was to co-found (with Charles Dickens) a home for young women who had 'turned to a life of immorality', including theft and prostitution. The home was known as Urania Cottage." [Wiki]. The volume contains many hitherto unpublished letters to Burdett-Coutts, which gives one a good flavor of Dickens rather sympathetic nature for those less fortunate. Uncommon in jacket.

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