Betty Trevor by Mrs George De Horne Vaizey - 1912

London - The Religious Society, 1912 Book. Good. Hardcover. An illustrated novel with fontispieceIllustrated with seven full page plates. Jessie Bell (1857 23 January 1917), later Jessie Mansergh, was an English writer born in Liverpool, who wrote under her married name Mrs George de Horne Vaizey. As her biography at Athelstane Books notes, She often used her own varied experiences in her books. She used situations from her early life in a large family, her first husbands addiction and death, and her own illnesses in her novels. De Horne Vaizey's daughter Gwyneth, nicknamed Kit, was the inspiration for the character Kitty in her 1902 work A Houseful of Girls. The author mentions that Gwyneth really did share lessons with a family of five sisters, who in many ways were like the hook Rendells. Chrystabel is as like as I could make her and they all talk In that funny way, emphasising every second or third word. Condition: In a pictorical cloth binding. Externally some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Internally the half title page is loose but generally firmly bound otherwise. Pages are generally clean with only minor spotting and browning to the edge of the page. Overall: GOOD.