{"product_id":"ellis-wives-draft","title":"THE WIVES OF ENGLAND BY SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS 1843 FIRST EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ELLIS, SARAH STICKNEY]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Wives of England, Their Relative Duties, Domestic Influence, \u0026amp; Social Obligations.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Fisher, Son, \u0026amp; Co., [1843].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFIRST U.K. EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; small octavo (16.5 x 10 x 3 cm); pp. ix, [1], 11-371. English text. Handsomely bound in contemporary full morocco gilt; all page edges gilt; yellow endpapers; engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Covers and contents very well-preserved. Small fore edge tear to first leaf of chapter one. Nice armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A most handsome copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: \"The most popular writer of Victorian conduct fiction\", Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799-1872) published some thirty-four books, including educational tracts, conduct manuals, poetry, biographical sketches, and novels (Orlando). The best known were her four phenomenally successful advice books addressed to a middle-class female readership published between 1839 and 1843 - The Wives of England being one of these. Focused on the role of women in the middle-class family, these domestic manuals emphasised the duty that Christian women had in exercising moral influence over the men in their lives - not a surprising perspective, given that Ellis had recently converted to the Congregational Church and was wife to the anthropologist and missionary William Ellis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57037118013815,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/files\/SAM_0655_44e3df5f-bc37-4a96-9740-d629c15b3449.jpg?v=1776905938","url":"https:\/\/rarebooksboutique.com\/products\/ellis-wives-draft","provider":"MFR Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}