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Beautiful color plates showcase naval prints from the height of the maritime age
This copy is almost like new and has cloth covers with separate jacket
Illustration in each volume after Edward H
10271-1 20th Century Cleis PressEdited by Paula R. Backsheider and Hope D. Cotton. Frances Brooke [1724 1789] was a highly successful writer, working in various formats and advancing the novel as a respected form. This novel, Brooke's third, was originally published in 1777 when women authors abounded. She based this plot on courtship novels like those by Frances Burney and Eliza Haywood, but differed in that the heroine of this story, Maria Villiers, is one of the first female
