Rosamond Dale Owen "My Perilous Life in Palestine", 1928, 1st ed.
Rosamond Dale Owen “My Perilous Life in Palestine”, 1928, 1st ed.
London Geotgr Allen & Unwin LTD Museum street, 346 pp., [6pp.]
Hard cover, 21 x 15 cm.
Some wear to cover, missing red paper to front cover.
Worm holes to covers and endpapers near spine; several pages with foxing
Weight: 630 gr.
Rosamond Dale Owen Templeton (1846-1937) ("Aunt Rose as I saw her last in England.") Rosamond Dale Owen, the granddaughter of Robert Owen and youngest child of Robert Dale Owen. "She was born in 1843 and went with the other children of Robert to Europe for her education, remaining in England and has lived most of her life there. She has travelled quite extensively, especially in the Holy Land. She married first Sir Laurence Oliphant, who died of fever soon after in Serbia. Her second husband was James Murray Templeton, Sir Oliphant's secretary, who mysteriously disappeared from a ship in mid-ocean while returning from the Holy Land to England. It is supposed that while delirious from the effects of a tropical fever he jumped overboard. Rosa is spoken of as a "gentle woman who reverts to the Owen type." She has a quiet manner and fascinating personality and although frail physically, she is alert mentally and full of cheerfulness and humor. She has a broad streak of sentimentality and is emotionally very active. She was at one time an Episcopalian, later a Theosophist and has recently been interested in other cults, and now considers herself a spiritualist. She has written several books, one on woman suffrage, and one called the Mediators, developing in this the theory of a new cult. During the World war she turned her house over for the care of wounded soldiers and spent so much money for the care of these disabled men that she rendered herself almost penniless. She has used most of her fortune in benevolence of this and other kinds."
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Rosamond Dale Owen “My Perilous Life in Palestine”, 1928, 1st ed.
London Geotgr Allen & Unwin LTD Museum street, 346 pp., [6pp.]
Hard cover, 21 x 15 cm.
Some wear to cover, missing red paper to front cover.
Worm holes to covers and endpapers near spine; several pages with foxing
Weight: 630 gr.
Rosamond Dale Owen Templeton (1846-1937) ("Aunt Rose as I saw her last in England.") Rosamond Dale Owen, the granddaughter of Robert Owen and youngest child of Robert Dale Owen. "She was born in 1843 and went with the other children of Robert to Europe for her education, remaining in England and has lived most of her life there. She has travelled quite extensively, especially in the Holy Land. She married first Sir Laurence Oliphant, who died of fever soon after in Serbia. Her second husband was James Murray Templeton, Sir Oliphant's secretary, who mysteriously disappeared from a ship in mid-ocean while returning from the Holy Land to England. It is supposed that while delirious from the effects of a tropical fever he jumped overboard. Rosa is spoken of as a "gentle woman who reverts to the Owen type." She has a quiet manner and fascinating personality and although frail physically, she is alert mentally and full of cheerfulness and humor. She has a broad streak of sentimentality and is emotionally very active. She was at one time an Episcopalian, later a Theosophist and has recently been interested in other cults, and now considers herself a spiritualist. She has written several books, one on woman suffrage, and one called the Mediators, developing in this the theory of a new cult. During the World war she turned her house over for the care of wounded soldiers and spent so much money for the care of these disabled men that she rendered herself almost penniless. She has used most of her fortune in benevolence of this and other kinds."
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