Eliot, George [aka Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880) Felix Holt, The Radical.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.
First edition, three octavo volumes, half-titles in each; re-bound in modern brown cloth with red gilt stamped spine labels, top edges gilt (scattered stains, some affecting text; corners just bumped); ex libris I. Wyndham, inked ownership inscription to front free fly leaf of each volume; 7 5/8 x 4 ¾ in. (3)
After setting aside her developing drama The Spanish Gypsy in 1864, Eliot shifted her focus to this rather political novel which questioned England's motivations for passing the 1832 Reform Act. The First Reform Act brought massive changes to the country's stymied electoral processes, however the so-called reforms explicitly barred women from voting by defining the English voter as solely male.
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