
THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET
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Little, Brown, Boston, 1945. Hard cover, 165 pages. Former school book. Good plus; blue cloth with a bit of discolouration on boards; edge, corner and spine end wear; paper label on spine; binding sound with a slight lean. No jacket. School stamp and numbers on front and rear paste-downs and front end paper; stamp in margins of several pages. Interior unmarked; occasional edge tear and small corner losses; some age/fox/soil spots; bit of foxing on outer page block. Illustrated with black & white photo plates. A comedy in Five Acts based on the romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Elizabeth is recovering from an illness, and she and her many siblings all live in fear of their father who rules them with an iron hand, and who has refused to allow any of them to marry.