ST JOHN (Lady Isabella, Novelist)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Campbell, sending "some prose instead of verse - all I possess in print here - and much better than any verses of my writing - without being very good at either - It was in the Keepsake and in the Newspapers of that day - which was not yesterday", 2 sides small 8vo., no place, no date, c. laid down by conjugate leaf

Lady Isabella wrote 'Wedded Life in the Upper Ranks', 1831, in 2 vols. - 'The Wife and Friends' and 'The Married Man', and other novels published by Bentley. 'Augustus Courtenay, & other Tales', came out in 1852, but wanted "art in construction", according to 'The Athenaeum'.

Item Date:  1855

Stock No:  19923      £55

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