Letters from the Cape

Letters from the Cape

Letters from the CapeIf Lady Duff Gordons Letters from the Cape are less familiar to the present...
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Letters from the Cape

Letters from the Cape

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Letters from the Cape

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Duff Gordon, Lucie
Format: eBook
Language: English

Letters from the Cape

If Lady Duff Gordons Letters from the Cape are less familiar to the present generation of readers than those of the Lady Anne Barnard, the neglect is due in great part to the circumstances of their publication. After appearing in a now-forgotten miscellany of Victorian travel, Galtons Vacation Tourists, third series (1864), where their simplicity and delicate unprofessional candour gave them a brief hour of public esteem, they were first issued separately as a supplement to Lady Duff Gordons Last Letters from Egypt, occupying the latter portion of a volume to which the writers daughter, Mrs. Ross, contributed a short but vivid memoir, which touched but lightly on her South African experiences; and they have never appeared, we believe, in any other form. Yet they are inferior in nothing but political interest to those of the authoress of Auld Robin Gray. Indeed, in her intellectual equipment, her temperament, and her gift of style, Lady Duff Gordon was a far rarer creature than the jovial and managing Scotswoman who was the correspondent of Dundas. And in human sympathythe quality that has kept Lady Anne Barnards letters aliveLady Duff Gordon shows a still wider range and a yet keener sensibility. Her letters are the fine flower of the English epistolary literature of p. ivthe Cape. Few books of their class have better deserved reprinting. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 886
Author: Duff Gordon, Lucie
Release Date: Apr 1, 1997
Format: eBook
Language: English

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