10791 Art and Artists May have library mark and/or

May have library mark and/or dj wear

A delightful biography

No date but note from previous owner inside front cover of first volume that he finished reading it in 1934

Northeastern University Press: 2000

Cover bumped at corners and head & tail of spine

10791 Art and Artists May have library mark and/orHowells [1837 1920] was an influential literary critic as well as an author of novels and plays. He also served as editor to the Atlantic Monthly. this work analyzes heroines of fiction including women characters found in Austen, Dickens, Bronte, Edgeworth, Burney, Ferrier, Opie, Radcliffe, Thackeray, Kingsley, Reade, Eliot, Trollope, more. Plates scattered throughout both volumes, various artists including H. C. Christy and A. I. Keller. Red and gold