LUCY CLIFFORD - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 297360
Price: $320.00
LUCY CLIFFORD
The author and journalist writes a letter to a friend "With
deepest joy for the 5th"
Autograph Letter signed: "Lucy Clifford", 1 page, 4x6. No
place, no date. On "26 Colville Road W." letterhead, in full:
"Monday Night My dear Gladys With deepest joy for the 5th Yours
sincerely" British novelist and journalist Clifford (1846-1929), born
Lucy Lane, is probably best known for the book Mrs. Keith's Crime
(1885) and her book of children's stories The Anyhow Stories, Moral
and Otherwise (1882). The Anyhow Stories deserves special mention
because includes the rather twisted story The New Mother, in which two
children act naughty in order to see a friend's toy... so naughty, in fact, that
their mother leaves them with a new mother sporting glass eyes and a wooden
tail. (They just don't write kids' stories like they used to) Lucy was also
married to mathematician William Kingdon Clifford from 1875 to his death in
1879. The Cliffords became known for their circle of literary friends
(including Henry James, whose 1898 story The Turn of the Screw is
somewhat similar to The New Mother) and for their Sunday salons hosting
many famous personalities. Normal mailing folds. Lightly worn. Lightly soiled.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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