Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling;

Book Description

London: William Pickering, 1852. By the author of Visiting My Relations. iv, 290, [4]pp., sm. 8vo. Title inscribed “To Mrs Green - a token of affectionate remembrance from the Author - June 21, 1852.” With a catalogue of Pickering publications at end. Original cloth, paper spine label a little chipped and the lower endpaper replaced. First edition, presentation copy, a fine introspective autobiography of a nineteenth century literary woman whose early novels, influenced by Jane Austen, gave way to a prolonged religious quest, with the author trying out various sects and going so far as to experiment with healers and speakers in tongues; she "nearly burned her piano," as The Feminist Companion notes. This is also an uncommon late Pickering publication, for which see Keynes, Pickering, p. 74. Five copies (DLC, PPL, NcU, CtY, NjP) in NUC.

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