SELF-CONTROL A NOVEL 3 volumes

by Mary Brunton, Jane Austen

$750 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

Edinburgh: George Ramsay & Co, 1811. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Mary Brunton 1778-1818 was a Scottish novelist, whose work has been seen as redefining femininity. Self-Control was her first novel, followed by Discipline in 1814. Brunton was a direct contemporary of Jane Austen; Austen and her family read and enjoyed Self-Control, though she was bemused by some of its narrative extravagance. In three volumes, a popular

• Binding: Hardcover

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