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13 volumes, 8vo., (viii, 423pp. + 1pp. ads) + (iv, 527pp.) + (viii, 558pp.) + (iv, 552pp.) + (viii, 406pp.) + (vi, 306pp.) + (iv, 407pp.) + (vi, 462pp.) + (iii, 560pp.) + (x, 490pp.) + (viii, 455pp. + 1pp. ads) + (viii, 518pp.) + (viii, 461pp. + 1pp. ads), half-titles and printed titles to each volume, matching marbled endpapers and fore-edges, bound in good quality purple morocco by Mudie of London, gilt decorated spines in compartments with raised bands, with gilt lettering to spines. A near fine bright clean collection in handsome bindings by Mudie. The prolific novelist Emma Jane Worboise (1825-1887) was born in Birmingham. She began writing at an early age and her first book, Alice Cunningham was published in 1846, when she was twenty-one. She went on to publish over fifty volumes of evangelical stories and novels as well as contributing to magazines. Her entry in the Dictionary of National Biography comments that her novels contained commonplace plots and characters, but are generally "wholesome and readable". Many of her books were reprinted several times, an indication of her popularity. Mrs. Guyton, her married name, sometimes appeared as the author on her work. She was a contributor to the Christian World Magazine and Family Visitor. In 1866 there was a contributor called Ernest Etherington but no evidence has been found of a Mr Etherington Guyton, her supposed husband so it is thought that this was used as a pen name, maybe in relation to her alcoholism. She died in Clevedon, Somerset and was buried in the local cemetary. Seller Inventory # 3619
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