Under Quicken Boughs by Hopper [Chesson], Nora, 1871-1906 - 1896

London: John Lane; the Bodly Head, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. 4 preliminary leaves, 151 [1] pages, (16)pp ads, illustrated by Patten Wilson. After 1905 she married William Chesson the close friend of Kipling, but to most her maiden name (Nora Hopper) was how she was best known. She wrote primarily about Irish myths and cast them in poetic form. She especially noted the richness of erotic life which was suppressed by the Catholic writers of the era. Chris Corr noted in the Irish University Review that she and Yeats had kept the Irish tradition (sometimes called the 'Celtic Renascence' central though other Irish writers had taken over the London style of sensitivities. Yates considered her the best Irish writer in the first two books as well as her poems in The Yellow Book. Bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in red and black, spine lettering gilt and decorated in red and black, just a few minor spots of bubbling to cloth. A very nice copy. [See G. Krishnamurti, Eighteen-nineties, entry 124 on Women Writers in the 1890's].