Lady Sylvia [ née BRETT], SYLVIA OF SARAWAK, second Ranee of Sarawak . Persecuted Parents … A Play about everybody else's Children, every Mother will tell every other Mother to go and SEE.

by BROOKE

£20,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

The only works for the Stage by Sylvia of Sarawak ever performed and printed in Sarawak BROOKE, Lady Sylvia [ née BRETT], SYLVIA OF SARAWAK, second Ranee of Sarawak . Persecuted Parents … A Play about everybody else's Children, every Mother will tell every other Mother to go and SEE. Kuching, Sarawak: Printed at the Government Printing Office by W. J. Chater, Acting Government Printer . 1935. 4to. Original publisher's calf-backed dark blue cloth, front cover lettered in gilt within embossed shield; pp. [ii], 77; spine with paste-paper restorations, minor traces of worming to the inside of the lower boards, tiny wormholes to upper outer corners of text; a rare survival of a stage play acerbically dissecting double standards of family life and motherhood. Extremely rare sole edition, association copy inscribed by the author and leading actor on front fly leaf, further inscribed by Dayang Elizabeth to her husband, together with a finely printed folding flyer announcing the staging at the Sarawak Club, and the playbill printed in red and black, stating that an autographed limited first edition of the play will be sold during the performance, price $2.50 . 'Before marrying into the last generation of the Brooke dynasty, Lady Sylvia was a young and successful writer under the tutelage of British literary giants George Bernard Shaw and J.M. Barrie. She published early, and often, amassing an impressive publications list by any measure in the genres of novel, short story, stage play,

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