THE YOUNG PHILOSOPHER
by Charlotte Smith
$2,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix
First edition
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1798. First edition of this late, mature novel by one of young Jane Austen's favorite writers — centrally concerned with the relationship between mother and daughter and with young women's education Fletcher, 229 . Very good plus. Item #55902 Austen was reading Smith's novels in her teens, and Jacqueline M. Labbe has described Smith as pivotal in
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