1881 Mary Agnes Tinckner By the Tiber FIRST EDITION Victorian Novel Roberts Bros

Description: By the Tiber by [Mary Agnes Tincker] the author of Signor Monaldini's Niece. First edition. Published in Boston by Roberts Brothers, 1881. Bound in the original publisher's cloth with gilt, black, and red stamped design. Very good+ to near fine condition. Previous owner name contemporary to the book, neatly written on the front free endpaper. A review in The Literary World (1881) says, in part: By the Tiber is a dramatic and powerful work detailing the experiences of a Penobscot girl, Valeria Ellsworth, in Rome. Miss Ellsworth is represented as an author and a Roman Catholic, who has established herself in the Eternal City because of its varied fascinations for her religious and aesthetic nature. She quickly becomes a prominent figure in a group of Italians, and of foreigners resident in Rome, among whom are several strongly drawn types of manhood and womanhood, agreeable and disagreeable — counts, countesses, and cardinals; a Miss Cromo, who is a most unpleasant American, a Miss Pendleton, a Miss Chaplin, a Mr. Willis, and so on. Miss Ellsworth has an individuality of her own, and friction is soon excited between her and her surroundings, the dire results of which are precipitated by a domestic tragedy of which she becomes the unintentional witness. It is interesting to note the author was born in Ellsworth, Maine, and chose to give her heroine the surname Ellsworth. (B2B)

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