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Home Sketches in France
Home Sketches in France
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FIELD, Mrs. HENRY M., Home Sketches in France, and Other Papers. By the Late Mrs. Henry M. Field. With Some Notices of her Life and Character. New York: George P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. 256pp. Frontis portrait. Original green cloth boards with title stamped in gilt on front board and spine. Binding sound. Light wear to extremities. Internally clean. Very good.
First edition. Published posthumously by her husband. "This little work will have a value to many persons as a memento of a woman of much social eminence- a woman who introduced into quarters where they would otherwise (and regrettably) have been little known, those gifts and graces which we are taught to attribute to the social and conversational play of the French mind. The private letters from Europe were originally written in French, and we are sorry that the editor should have thought it neccessary to translate them. Easily, apparently, as Mrs. Field handled English, it is probable that in her own tonguue her style had a stronger savor." (Nation, June 10, 1875).
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