A SILENT SINGER

by Clara Morris, Clara Morris Harriott

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Brentano's, 1899. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in white and gold. First edition. The author's first book of fiction. The Canadian-born Morris was a successful stage actress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, then took up writing, often using theatrical backgrounds. Financial and health difficulties were eased in 1915 when she inherited some money from a brother-in-law.

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