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LITERATURE AND FEMINISM
Album containing letters, many to members of the Grey family, by Henry James, John Ruskin, William Lloyd Garrison and others

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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LITERATURE AND FEMINISM

Album containing letters, many to members of the Grey family, by Henry James (to his cousin Charlotte [?King]: "My brother William, who has been in Europe, on the continent all summer, & was to have sailed for home a fortnight hence, has just arrived, having suddenly taken an earlier passage... He goes to Liverpool tomorrow noon, & I have had a natural wish that we shld. dine together on his last evening. He would have come to see you also – but his want of time made it impossible..."), 23 August, no year; John Ruskin ("...I was very happy teaching Nellie, and very proud of her – and of Dermod also as long as he was here. Nellie was taken away without rhyme or reason that I could make out, and I was very cross..."), 1881; William Lloyd Garrison (to the social reformer and feminist Josephine Butler, supporting her opposition to the Contagious Diseases Act, held to discriminate against women in the treatment of prostitutes), 1877; Charles Dickens (envelope signature); Henry W. Longfellow (fragment); William IV; Jenny Lind; William Sterndale Bennett; Julius Benedict; Francis Grant PRA; Effie Millais; Mrs Butler's kinsman Earl Grey; Palmerston; Peel and others, calf, stamped 'Autographs', upper cover detached, 4to

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