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A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.
East of Paris
Matilda Betham-Edwards was bone in 1836. She was a novelist, travel writer and had a great interest in anything French. She was a prolific poet and wrote several children¿s books. She was of Huguenot ancestry and considered France her second homeland. It was her mission to create better understanding between France and England. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne is a travelogue of area outside of the big cities of France. The author describes the colors and characteristics of rural France. She covers such locations as Melun, Moret-Sur-Loing, Bourron, Larchant, Rrecloses, Nemours, La Charite-Sur-Loing, Pougues, Nevers and Moulins, Souvigny and Sens, Arcis-Sur-Aube and many more.
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In the Heart of the Vosges, and Other Sketches
Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836-1919) was an English novelist, travel writer and Francophile, and also a prolific poet. In addition she wrote several children's books and corresponded with well-known English male poets of the day. Her first novel, The White House by the Sea (1857) was an immediate success, reprinted several times, pirated in the United States, and in print for forty years. Matilda studied French and German abroad and then settled with her sister in Suffolk to manage the farm which had belonged to her father. Not content, however, with purely rural occupations, she contributed from time to time to Household Words, having the advantage at this time of the friendship of Charles Di...
Mutual (In)Comprehensions
This collection of essays by French and British humanities scholars explores the complex relationship between the two nations in the long nineteenth century. Both countries contemplated the other with admiration and anxiety, using their best enemy to shape their own national identities. Mutual (In)Comprehensions is unique in the range of its coverage, which includes artistic, literary, economic, educational, social, and historical interpretations, interactions, and appropriations. British railway engineers consider the character of the French railway worker; a French illustrator portrays with disturbing insight the social divisions of Victorian London; British agricultural writers find cause...
Holidays in Eastern France
"Holidays in Eastern France" by Matilda Betham-Edwards As a noted francophile, Betham-Edwards found every excuse she could to bring her travels to France. In this book, she creates a travelogue of one of her vacations to the region. She prided herself on having an authentic experience without tourist hotels and guidebooks to direct her, and she shared this riveting and liberating experience with her readers.
