The Wilmots. A South Australian Story by Effie Stanley
London, Elliot Stock, 1877.
Octavo, [iv], 187 pages.
Original black-decorated cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; inner hinges expertly reinforced; endpapers and title page a little offset and foxed; ownership signature on the title page; trifling signs of use; a very good copy.
An 'evangelical novel ... [which] gives a most favourable impression of Adelaide as a pleasant place in which to live.... One need not linger over the religious and psychological crudities in the novel - cards, liquor, dancing, the theatre, all are condemned in the customary dogmatic but dramatically unconvincing manner' (Paul Depasquale: 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature, 1836-1930').
Item #80794
Price (AUD):
$330.00