The Keepsake - Softcover

Miss Power

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461650347 ISBN 13: 9780461650341

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

The Keepsake by Miss Power. The Keepsake is a mid-19th century English anthology edited by Miss Power, published in 1857, that gathers a wide range of verse, prose, translations, and short narratives from a slate of contemporary contributors. The collection is designed for the Victorian drawing-room, and is richly illustrated with engraved plates. Contents span reflective lyrics, moral tales, and sentimental sketches, including poems and pieces such as On the Portrait of Lady Molesworth, Love and Wisdom, The Mother’s Bequest, Dream On, A Soldier’s Nurse, Cyril Baskerville, The Vault and the Altar, and The Story of a Little Blue Flower, among others. The volume also features translations (e.g., excerpts translated from Longfellow) and contributions by notable authors of the era, presenting themes of memory, love, duty, motherhood, war, moral virtue, and domestic life. The Keepsake captures the tastes and moral earnestness of its age, blending refined lyricism with narratives that aim to instruct, uplift, and entertain a refined middle-class readership.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461650347
• ISBN 13: 9780461650341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 341