Aguilar, Grace

Home influence: a tale for mothers and daughters ... A new edition

Boston: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan, 1854. 8vo, pp. xx, 386; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 2 central gatherings sprung, else very good. "When she died in 1847 at the age of thirty-one, Grace Aguilar enjoyed a reputation as a poet, historical romance writer, domestic novelist, Jewish emancipator, religious reformer, educator, social historian, theologian, and liturgist. A Jewish woman in Victorian England, Aguilar produced a body of work that appealed to both Jews and Christians" (Michael Galchinsky). A "memoir" of her is part of the preliminaries. Item #54113

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