Clifford, Mrs. W. K. [Lucy].

A FLASH OF SUMMER. The Story of a Simple Woman's Life.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Clifford, Mrs. W. K. [Lucy] A FLASH OF SUMMER. The Story of a Simple Woman's Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 8vo., 299pp. First American Edition. Half brown leather over marbled boards, TEG. A very good copy showing modest use Lucy Clifford [1846 - 1929], better known as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, was a British novelist & journalist, & the wife of the mathematician & philosopher William Kingdon Clifford. She had a wide circle of literary friends, amongst them Henry James.

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