Bayard Taylor, Hannah Thurston, American Life 1865
"Hannah Thurston: Story of American Life", by Bayard Taylor, published by G.P. Putnam; Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1865, copyright 1863, by Putnam. Later printing of the first edition.
Maxwell Woodberry returns from years of travel to make a home in the village where he lived as a child. There he meets Hannah Thurston, a lovely Quaker girl, and admires her, but is repelled by her advocacy of woman's rights. Love finally triumphs, and they are happily married, each yielding some part of his or her prejudice. All the fads and crotchets of a country village find a place in the chronicle: total abstinence, vegetarianism, spiritualism, and abolition. In Mr. Dyce we have the villain who advocates free love, acts the part of medium, and belongs to a colony of Perfectionists. There are the Whitlows, who wish their children to follow their own inclinations, regardless of others; Silas Wattles, the tailor; good Mr. Waldo, the minister, and his wife who loved all the world; honest Bute, the farmer; and the coquettish little seamstress, Carry Dilworthy, who makes him such a sweet wife. Woodberry's "poverty party" has had many imitations in later days; and we have also sewing societies, temperance conventions, and other of the usual phases of American country life.
Begun in America, the book was finished in 1863, in St. Petersburg, where Taylor had been sent as secretary of legation. It was his first novel; and is a strangely peaceful book to be written during the early days of the Civil War, and in Russia. It had a large sale, was translated into Russian and German, and published simultaneously in London and New York.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ----------- $8.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-6 weeks) ---- $22.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ----- $28.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, original publisher’s cloth, gold lettering on spine, 5” 7.1/2”; chocolate-brown endpaper; 464 pages, very good condition
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"Hannah Thurston: Story of American Life", by Bayard Taylor, published by G.P. Putnam; Hurd and Houghton, New York, 1865, copyright 1863, by Putnam. Later printing of the first edition.
Maxwell Woodberry returns from years of travel to make a home in the village where he lived as a child. There he meets Hannah Thurston, a lovely Quaker girl, and admires her, but is repelled by her advocacy of woman's rights. Love finally triumphs, and they are happily married, each yielding some part of his or her prejudice. All the fads and crotchets of a country village find a place in the chronicle: total abstinence, vegetarianism, spiritualism, and abolition. In Mr. Dyce we have the villain who advocates free love, acts the part of medium, and belongs to a colony of Perfectionists. There are the Whitlows, who wish their children to follow their own inclinations, regardless of others; Silas Wattles, the tailor; good Mr. Waldo, the minister, and his wife who loved all the world; honest Bute, the farmer; and the coquettish little seamstress, Carry Dilworthy, who makes him such a sweet wife. Woodberry's "poverty party" has had many imitations in later days; and we have also sewing societies, temperance conventions, and other of the usual phases of American country life.
Begun in America, the book was finished in 1863, in St. Petersburg, where Taylor had been sent as secretary of legation. It was his first novel; and is a strangely peaceful book to be written during the early days of the Civil War, and in Russia. It had a large sale, was translated into Russian and German, and published simultaneously in London and New York.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) ----------- $8.50
Canada: 1st Class (c.2-6 weeks) ---- $22.50
World: 1st Class (c.2-8 weeks) ----- $28.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, original publisher’s cloth, gold lettering on spine, 5” 7.1/2”; chocolate-brown endpaper; 464 pages, very good condition
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