Edna His Wife, an American Idyll

Barnes, Margaret Ayer

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935

Edna His Wife, an American Idyll by Margaret Ayer Barnes. Inscribed by former Texas governor Miriam A. (Ma) Ferguson: ?Love to Helen, Xmas ? 1935? (the year she left office after her second term). 1st edition (date on title page is the way this publisher indicated first editions). Dust jacket art by C. Leroy Baldridge. Book Condition: good. The text block is in near fine condition with no marks, dog ears, or tears, but the pages are age-tanned. The endpapers are likewise age-tanned and stained. Not a library book nor a remainder. No bookplate, just the inscription from Miriam Ferguson. Tight binding. The blue cloth boards have minor corner bumping and sun fading at the top edges. Likewise, the spine with top fading and bumping (top and bottom). The dust jacket is intact but in poor condition with many tears, spots, and folds. It is price-clipped. Please note that since this book will weigh two pounds with packaging, additional postage will be necessary for any shipments outside the US. Please contact me before buying if you do not live in the US. [From the dust jacket flap] Starting in the days of tandem bicycles, beer gardens, and hansom cabs, this new novel by the author of 'Years of Grace' and 'Within this Present,' marches down the long, exciting years to 1935. When it opens, Edna is a pink-cheeked girl ' keeping company' with a Rock Island brakeman; at the end she is a plump little lady in the middle fifties with a rich husband and a social position in which she is never quite at ease. Through all the vicissitudes of her life, she shows common sense and courage which win and hold our deepest sympathy. Edna is typical of thousands of women to whom wealth and a brilliant husband have failed to bring all the romantic happiness dreamed of when young. The drama of her life, played against an ever-changing back- ground of Chicago, Washington, and New York of yesterday and today, makes one of those completely satisfying stories of American family life in which Mrs. Barnes excels. Edna, His Wife (1935) was later adapted into a play of the same name by Cornelia Otis Skinner. [Wikipedia] Margaret Ayer Barnes (April 8, 1886, Chicago, Illinois ? October 25, 1967, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she earned an A.B. degree in 1907. She married Cecil Barnes in 1910, and had three sons. In 1920, Barnes was elected alumnae director of Bryn Mawr and served three years. As director, she helped to organize the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, which offered an alternative educational program for women workers within a traditional institution. Consisting mainly of young, single immigrant women with little to no academic background, the summer program offered courses in progressive education, liberal arts and economics. Women in the program were encouraged to develop confidence as speakers, writers and leaders in the workplace. In 1926, at age 40, she broke her back in a traffic accident, and, with the encouragement of friend and playwright Edward Sheldon, took up writing as a way to occupy her time. Between 1926 and 1930 she wrote several short stories and three plays, including an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence. In 1931 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel, Years of Grace. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000437

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Edna His Wife, an American Idyll
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 1935
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor
Auflage: 1st Edition