Aphra Behn by V. Sackville-West
Aphra Behn by V. Sackville-West. 1927 Gerald Howe, first edition, 92 pages. Part of the Representative Women series edited by Francis Birrell: "The series will give in biographical form a picture of female accomplishment throughout the ages." Includes a newspaper clipping of a correction that Sackville-West sent into the Times in 1961 about an article they ran on Aprha Behn. Sackville-West was a British novelist and biographer, companion and lover to Virginia Woolf, and accomplished gardener.
Condition: Good. Shelf wear, missing DJ, owner name on first page.
"But let us say straight away that Aphra Behn is no Shakespeare, the smallest clue to the detail of whose life would be precious and worth pursuing."
Aphra Behn by V. Sackville-West. 1927 Gerald Howe, first edition, 92 pages. Part of the Representative Women series edited by Francis Birrell: "The series will give in biographical form a picture of female accomplishment throughout the ages." Includes a newspaper clipping of a correction that Sackville-West sent into the Times in 1961 about an article they ran on Aprha Behn. Sackville-West was a British novelist and biographer, companion and lover to Virginia Woolf, and accomplished gardener.
Condition: Good. Shelf wear, missing DJ, owner name on first page.
"But let us say straight away that Aphra Behn is no Shakespeare, the smallest clue to the detail of whose life would be precious and worth pursuing."