Charister.

Clifton (Violet)

Charister.

Description: [ONE OF 250 COPIES] printed on Arnold's handmade paper, frontispiece portrait of the author by Wallace Wood, tissue-guard present, pp. 88, royal 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and gently pushed at ends, edges of cloth a little dusty, textblock edges untrimmed with a couple of very faint spots, printed grey dustjacket with a little chipping to extremities, and gently darkened to backstrip panel and borders, very good

Publication Details: Hague and Gill, 1938

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the dedication-page, designating this as 'Written by Violet Clifton', and the copy of 'S. Hedley' - her dating of the inscription as '1838' is a mere century errant.A religious meditation in the form of a verse-dialogue between The Woman and Dante. Violet Clifton, née Beauclerk and a descendant of Charles Beauclerk (therefore also of his parents, King Charles II and Nell Gwyn), was the wife of explorer Talbot Clifton: her work included travel narratives of their journeys together, drama, biography (of her husband) as well as verse; her work, frequently possessed of...moreInscribed by the author on the dedication-page, designating this as 'Written by Violet Clifton', and the copy of 'S. Hedley' - her dating of the inscription as '1838' is a mere century errant.A religious meditation in the form of a verse-dialogue between The Woman and Dante. Violet Clifton, née Beauclerk and a descendant of Charles Beauclerk (therefore also of his parents, King Charles II and Nell Gwyn), was the wife of explorer Talbot Clifton: her work included travel narratives of their journeys together, drama, biography (of her husband) as well as verse; her work, frequently possessed of a visionary quality, drew admirers including Nevill Coghill - who nominated her for the Nobel Prize in 1935. The uncommon dustjacket provides additional text in the form of its blurb, but also in the note by T.S. Gregory printed to its rear panel, which reinforces its status as a Catholic love-poem. HIDE