Vindication by Mckenna Stephen, Signed (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Signed presentation copy: "for A.S. Boddy, with the author's best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. From Stephen McKenna." 8vo.pp. 288. Original publisher's cloth binding in lipstick red, lettered Black. Hutchinson's New Novels review Pages at rear give a revealing insight to his treatment of women:"Mr. McKenna has an uncanny knowledge of feminine psychology. This novel shows him as much and adapt as ever in this strange labyrinth; and, following him, we hold the clue as to why a woman yields her dearest treasure, to a man she fears and hates, and denies it to him for whom her whole being lungs. It is not an entirely pleasant world, that in which Mr McKenna bids us accompany him willy-nilly, but it is a curiously absorbing one, and, moreover, the shifting changing world of today., here, exÐchorus girls, with the garish glare of the footlights hardly dimmed, rule stately houses and impoverished blue blood clings desperately to lost ideals of honour and womanhood."/Stephen McKenna (1888Ð1967) was an English novelist who wrote forty-seven novels, mostly focusing on English upper-class society. Very good. Small tear at head of spine, no loss. Signedes.