SALOME

by text, binding, Mary Lamb, Charles, Fridolf Johnson, poem

$850 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

N.p. Fridolf Johnson, 1948. A unique manuscript of Mary Lamb's romantic poem Salome, composed around 1808-09, and first published in her husband Charles Lamb's Works 1818 ; while the poem was originally published in her husband's works, and while his name is credited on the title page of this volume, the poem, according to scholar Adriana Craciun, is indisputably hers The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale. Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening

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