1898 A Great Love Clara Louise Burnham - Sarah Wyman Whitman Cover Design

Description: A Great Love. By Clara Louise Burnham. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1898. Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, 7 x 5", 12mo. In poor condition. As is. Green cloth boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed. White ex-library hand-writing found on tail of spine. Both front and rear gutters split; binding mesh exposed. Ex-library ink stamp found on front end-page: "Sunbury Hospital Library." Glue residue found on rear paste-down. Normal age-related toning throughout text block; mostly to edges of leaves. Binding intact. Please see photos. Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was an American stained glass artist, painter, and book cover designer. Successful at a time when few women had professional art careers, she founded her own firm, Lily Glass Works. As a member of the board of the Harvard University "Annex," she helped to found Radcliffe College. Whitman's artistic training was rather short. She began her artistic training at the age of 26 in Boston with William Morris Hunt and William Rimmer, one of their earliest women students. Clara Louise Burnham (née, Root; 1854 – 1927) was an American novelist. After the success of No Gentlemen (1881), other books followed, including A Sane Lunatic (1882), Dearly Bought (1884), Next Door (1886), Young Maids and Old (1888), The Mistress of Beech Knoll (1890), and Miss Bagg's Secretary (1892). The daughter of George Frederick Root, she wrote the text for several his most successful cantatas. The 1923 film, A Chapter in Her Life is based on Burnham's 1903 novel Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life. Born in Massachusetts, she died at the family home in Maine in 1927. COLL1898QBCB 05/24 - HK1591

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