WEST, Rebecca.

£2,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Judge. First edition, first impression, in the scarce and appealingly illustrated jacket, of the author's follow up to her debut Return of the Soldier. The Judge is a romance of a young suffragette Ellen Melville, struggling to live freely in spite of her own beauty: "her body would imprison her in soft places. She would be allowed no adventures other than love, no achievements other than birth". West (1892-1983) had started her career as a columnist for the suffragist weekly The Freewoman.

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