Soiled cloth boards, corners and spine ends bumped and lightly worn (not to boards). Pages age browned, edges darker and a bit soiled, library stamp on bottom page edges, staple holes on front free endpaper; interior pages clean, no binding problems. Front flap from now missing dust wrapper and BOMC insert about the book (with an image of the author), both with staple holes, laid in. A reading copy only.
; The story of Adelaide and her life in London from the Victorian era through World War II. Basis for the film "The Forbidden Street" starring Dana Andrews and Maureen O'Hara.; "Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it's no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide Culver is fascinated by what goes on there. Years later, Adelaide shocks her family when she falls in love with an impoverished artist and moves into the mews. But violence shatters Adelaide's dreams. In a dangerous new world, she must fend for herself--until she meets a charismatic stranger and her life takes a turn she never expected. A novel about social manners and mores reminiscent of Edith Wharton, this story of love, family, and the price one must pay for throwing off the shackles of convention is also a witty and incisive dissection of the "upstairs, downstairs" English class system of the last two centuries." Image is actual copy on offer.
Title: Britannia Mews
Edition: Book Club Edition
Location Published: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1946
Binding: Hardcover; Book Club Edition
Book Condition: Good
Size: 378 pages
Categories: Anglophile Fiction, British Women Authors, Sharp, Margery, At the Movies, New Arrivals, Anglophile Fiction Q-Z
Seller ID: 7455
Keywords: british woman author, film, london, movie, novel, victorian england, world war ii
