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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. FIRST AMER. EDITION, first printing. Published simultaneously in England and the US. This being the American 1st edition. Full green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cov er. Modest wear to the extremities. Tissue guarded frontispiece. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Katherine Cecil Thurston (18 April 1875 - 5 September 1911) was an Irish novelist. She was born Katherine Cecil Madden in Cork, Ireland, the only daughter of banker Paul J. Madden (who was Mayor of Cork 1885-1886, and a friend of Charles Stuart Parnell) and Catherine Madden (born Barry). Privately educated, by the end of the nineteenth century she was a contributing author of short stories for various British publications such as Pall Mall Magazine, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Harpers, Windsor Magazine, and others. In 1901, she married writer Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933). They separated in 1907 and were… Read More