‎"FULLERTON, LADY GEORGIANA.‎
‎Ellen Middleton. A Tale. In Three Volumes. 3 vols. - [PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎London, 1844. All three volumes in the orig. burgundy full cloth w. gilt lettering to spines and blindstamped boards. Capitals and corners a bit bumped and spines a bit crooked. Internally very nice and clean. W. 8 pp. of advertisements in vol. one and 14 pp. of advertisements in vol. three.‎

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‎First edition of Lady Georgiana's first novel, one of her main works, inscribed on half-title of each volume: ""Sophy Consulonieri/ from Lady Georgiana.""Lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton (1812-1885) was a hugely succesful English novelist, whose great novels played an important rôle in disseminating the main controversies of religious debate to the novel-reading public. This, her first novel, was written while she was still a practising Anglican. The work focuses on the issue of confession, and it was very well received. In ""The English Review"", Mr. Gladstone said of it: ""the least didactic and the most instructive"" of religious novels. Two years after the appearnce of the novel, Lady Georgiana converted to Roman Catholocism.‎