Cushing Paul Pseud (1 results)
Published by Ward & Downey. 1895 1895
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Half titles, preceded by blanks, except for volume numbers, 2pp ads vol. I, ads on final page vol. II Original pale brown cloth, boards heavily embossed with branch & flower pattern; cloth sl. marked. Vol. I viii, 214, 2pp ads II viii, (220) III viii, 224pp. Not in Sadleir or Wolff, who has one other novel (7304) The Blacksmith…of Voe. West Country tragedy; after a duel the heroine dies in childbirth, her attempt to become a society painter in London a failure. The titlepage lists Cushing as also author of The Bull i' th' Thorn, Cut with his own Diamond, The Great Chin Episode, & Wolff lists Misogyny and the Maiden, A Woman with a Secret and Doctor Caesar Croul, Mind-Curer. His last novel, God's Lad, appeared in 1900. The last three-decker accepted by Mudie's Library was Mrs. Walford's The Matchmaker, 1894, the year in which 112 were published - with only 2 published in 1897.
