SET TO PARTNERS: A NOVEL

by Mrs. Henry Dudeney, Alice Whiffin

$85 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: William Heinemann, 1913. Octavo, original plum cloth. First edition. The author's view of the predicament of women and the relationship of the sexes is extremely pessimistic ... Reviewers sometimes compared her to Thomas Hardy ... In her short stories ... she shows women bitter and deformed by lack of opportunity, but also humorous and resourceful; at her best she is a counterpart of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman .... -

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