Cushing Paul Pseud (1 results)

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.