PRESENTATION-COPY

FULLERTON, LADY GEORGIANA.

Ellen Middleton. A Tale. In Three Volumes. 3 vols.

London, 1844. All three volumes in the orig. burgundy full cloth w. gilt lettering to spines and blindstamped boards. Capitals and corners a bit bumped and spines a bit crooked. Internally very nice and clean. W. 8 pp. of advertisements in vol. one and 14 pp. of advertisements in vol. three.

First edition of Lady Georgiana's first novel, one of her main works, inscribed on half-title of each volume: "Sophy Consulonieri/ from Lady Georgiana."

Lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton (1812-1885) was a hugely succesful English novelist, whose great novels played an important rôle in disseminating the main controversies of religious debate to the novel-reading public. This, her first novel, was written while she was still a practising Anglican. The work focuses on the issue of confession, and it was very well received. In "The English Review", Mr. Gladstone said of it: "the least didactic and the most instructive" of religious novels.
Two years after the appearnce of the novel, Lady Georgiana converted to Roman Catholocism.

Order-nr.: 35938