Author: Howe, Julia Ward
Title: The World's Own
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1957, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first state: Sm. 8vo. Publisher's original embossed green cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine. 141p. 12 pgs of ads showing some minor damping & dated April 1857 at rear. Covers a bit stained, spine ends with minor wear. A ve ry good, tight copy. A poetic drama by the author who a few years later was to publish "Battle Hymn of the Republic". This play also called Leonora, was written in 1856 while Howe was accompanying a group of antislavery emigrants to Kansas. In the p lay, the heroine in unable to fulfill a vow to kill her lover who has abandoned her and takes her own life instead. The play was very poorly received when performed in NY in 1857. [James: Notable American Women]. .

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