The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman and Other Erratic Essays

Dunphie, Charles James (1820-1908)

Published by Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company, Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company, 1876

About this Item

Hardcover, decorative reddish cloth stamped in black and gold. 362 pages. Eight page publisher's catalog appended at rear. First edition. Previous owner's name and date (1879) written inside front cover and on blank verso of page facing title-page. Charles James Dunphie (1820-1908) was poet, author, and art critic who attended Trinity College, Dublin and later King's College Hospital, London, before embarking on a literary career as an author and critic. His proflic output includes poetry written in Latin, Greek and English for the Cornhill and Belgravia and numerous essays for the Sunday Times and the Observer, the latter later collected into no less than three separate volumes. In the present volume the first and titular essay concerns itself with the history of the distaff branch of humanity and its requisite social and moral issues, followed by forty-one additional essays of decidedly lesser gravitas such as "The Advantages of Being Ugly". A droll collection of assuming prose, written in an erudite and polished style. A clean, sound, unmarked [but for owner's name] copy. Very good+. Seller Inventory # 020757

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman and...

Publisher: Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company, Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company

Publication Date: 1876

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Edition: First Edition