Bennett, Mary E.

Jefferson Wildrider by Elizabeth Glover [provenance: Maria H. Eakin and Eleanore Eakin]

New York: Baker and Taylor Company, 1898. Hardcover. vi, 313 p.; 19 cm. Publisher's light green cloth, with dark green pattern on spine and front board. Gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Top page edges gilt. Former owner's inscription at head of title page: Maria H. Eakin, April 1899. Possibly Maria H. Eakin (1847-1917), wife of Constant M. Eakin, of Salem, N.J. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Eleanore Eakin from her Mother." Elizabeth Glover was the pseudonym used by the late 19th-century American writer Mary E. Bennett, born in Connecticut in 1841. In the years from 1889 to 1898 she published in New York five works, including this novel. No other information about her has been located. In WorldCat, records for her works have been conflated with those of another Mary E. Bennett, who published fiction in London in the 1850s and 1860s. The title character of this novel, set in a small Connecticut village, is the son of the founder of the community and a Native American woman. In Good+ Condition: slightly cocked; small red stain at upper right-hand corner and along fore-edge of front board, and more heavily along fore-edge of back board; otherwise, a clean and bright copy. Good +. Item #003201

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