Self-Control. A Novel

by Mary Brunton

$875 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First American Edition. 174, 2 pp. 8vo. Brown printed wrappers, front wrapper loose, else VG. Item #319806 One of two novels by Brunton, it was wildly successful and Jane Austen's family, who eventually read it with not a little bit of enjoyment, even had difficulty in locating a copy, which she found to be an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work , but too improbable for her tastes. Austen read it during

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