Poems of Speranza (Lady Wilde).
by Wilde, Lady Jane Francesca Elgee; Speranza
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About This Item
Dublin M. H. Gill & Son, 1907, hardcover. New edition (the original was published 1864; Lady Wilde died 1896). -- Nice hardcover, dark green cloth with blind-stamped Irish harp and art nouveau pattern, bright gilt spine lettering. Condition: near fine (the edges are foxed). -- Lady Wilde wrote political essays championing the Young Irelanders and also poetry under this pseudonym. Her pamphlets influenced her son Oscar, whom she apparently insisted on standing trial rather than fleeing to the Continent [Oxford Companion to Irish Literature] -- SCARCE
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- Bookseller
- Bucks County Bookshop IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34912
- Title
- Poems of Speranza (Lady Wilde).
- Author
- Wilde, Lady Jane Francesca Elgee; Speranza
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- M. H. Gill & Son
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ireland - Literature;
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