Vintage Scrapbook of Newspaper Articles (Primarily New York Papers) about Charles Dickens from Book Reviews and Other Reports in 1934

1934. Scrapbook. Good. Hardcover. 8 ½ X 11 thick card covers with cloth-covered spine, string-bound. 80 leaves, 75 numbered pages, rectos only, beginning about ten pages into the scrapbook. Newspaper clippings pasted on both rectos and versos through page 30 and rectos only thereafter through page 74. Page 75 is blank. Two 1936 clippings from the Sunday New York Herald Tribune Books section are laid in between blank leaves near the end of the scrapbook, as are pressed flowers between preceding leaves. A number of the articles are serial installments, some are book reviews. Miss Trosper (1912-1944), daughter of an Oklahoma pioneering family, attended the University of Oklahoma and appears to have been a recent graduate living in New York at the time she assembled this scrapbook. She noted on her bookplate (1934 / New York), indicating she spent at least part of the year in New York collecting articles from New York newspapers, January through May of 1934. Two from that time range were collected from the Sunday World Herald of Omaha, Nebraska. Outside that date range are two 1936 articles from the New York Herald Tribune, Sunday Books section laid in near the end of the scrapbook. The scrapbook begins with reviews of the first publication of Dickens' "The Life of Our Lord," (Simon & Schuster, 1934), written for his children during the years 1846 to 1949, followed by a few pages of headlines and images referring to the end of his marriage. After these introductory nine page, Miss Trosper started numbering the pages in the upper corners (rectos only) 1, 2, 3, etc. Page 1 contains the first installment of a series of love letters Dickens wrote to his boyhood sweetheart, Maria Beadknell, who eventually broke up with him. The serialized articles introduced by by H.H. Harper begin Sunday, April 22, 1934, (the page numbered 1 in the scrapbook) and conclude Sunday, May 6, 1934. The installments are interspersed with other articles until page 26, from where they are presented sequentially through page 71. Shelf and corner wear, moisture staining evident along the lower front-cover at the spine. Bookplate of compiler, Elizabeth Jane Trosper, affixed inside the front cover, her name written above it, as well as on the bookplate with the year (1934) and place (New York). Interior pages in very good condition and the newspaper clippings have browned, but still firmly pasted to the leaves..