The eighteen-seventies : essays by fellows of the Royal Society of Literature / edited by Harley Granville-Barker
1929, 1st edition. Cambridge : At the University Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #429240
Physical description: xiv, 284 pages ; 23 cm. Contents: Lord Houghton and his circle / by the Marquess of Crewe -- Novelists of the 'Seventies / by Hugh Walpole -- Some women novelists of the 'Seventies / by Walter de la Mare -- Andrew Lang in the 'Seventies -- and after / George Saintsbury -- The poetry of the 'Seventies / by John Drinkwater -- The women poets of the 'Seventies / by V. Sackville-West -- The theatre in the 'Seventies / by Sir Arthur Pinero -- Tennyson, Swinburne, Meredith -- and the theatre / by Harley Granville-Barker -- Critics and criticism in the 'Seventies / by Frederick S. Boas -- Oxford in the 'Seventies / by R.W. Macan -- Cambridge in the 'Seventies / by W.E. Heitland. Subjects: 1800-1899. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century. England Intellectual life 19th century.
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