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Novel 270: Annie Edwardes, A Blue-Stocking (1877)

James Jacques Joseph Tissot, Boarding the Yacht
James Jacques Joseph Tissot, Boarding the Yacht

In Jersey, a gentleman rescues a young widow’s child from drowning.

For Edwardes, see Novels 158 and 212.

“Mrs. Edwardes is at her best in this book.  It has . . . the quiet humour which we have missed in her later works.”  Spectator, October 20, 1877

“It is pleasant, bright, and inoffensive.”  Saturday Review, November 24, 1877

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