15865-2 Miss Read and Cultural Wars

and Cultural Wars

combined with historical commentary and trivia about Austen and her novels

red cloth cover with white label

which included exchanges with friends like Handel and Swift

15865-2 Miss Read and Cultural WarsThe Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge on 1 May 1935. Very early in the career of the biographer who later wrote A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978). This lecture gives a fascinating perspective on the state of Austen thought in the 1930's. January 1936 reprint of the first edition by Cambridge, with a Macmillan sticker pasted on front cover. Cream colored wrapper with wear to spine and overhanging edges. Light foxing on