Truth Stranger than Fiction; A Narrative of Recent Transactions, Involving Inquiries in Regard to the Principles of Honor, Truth, and Justice which Obtain in a Distinguished American University

Published by Phillips, Sampson & Co, Boston, 1850

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8vo. [7], 4-296, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with a few borders and decorations in blind on the boards, a recent brown morocco label with gold lettering on the spine. Publisher's ads printed on the endpapers and pastedowns. National Women's History Museum, "Catharine Beecher 1800-1878". History of American Women, "Delia Bacon". Sabin 4295. Catherine Beecher was the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She ran a school for girls and was invested in the education of young women, advocating for equal access to education for girls and boys. She wrote this book in defense of a former student of hers, Delia Bacon. Bacon was accused of improper and indiscreet conduct during a love affair she had with a man ten years her junior. Her brother, Leonard Bacon, took the matter before the Yale Seminary (where Delia's ex-love interest was a student) but found no relief as the authorities at the seminary ruled against Delia. Bacon is most famous for her theory that William Shakespeare did not write the plays that are attributed to him. Recently rebacked with an amateur repair to the cloth on the front board, a contemporary call number on the front pastedown and two stamps from the Mercantile Library of New York (one of which is on the title page).

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Title
Truth Stranger than Fiction; A Narrative of Recent Transactions, Involving Inquiries in Regard to the Principles of Honor, Truth, and Justice which Obtain in a Distinguished American University
Author
Beecher, Catherine E.
Publisher
Phillips, Sampson & Co, Boston
Publication year
1850
Condition
Ex-Library
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Hardcover
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First edition.
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