Anonyme

1771 · 60131 — 1771. ANONYMOUS. Anecdotes of a Convent. By the Author of Memoirs of Mrs. Williams. 18th-century full calf gilt-lettered red and black morocco spine labels. Dublin: Printed for J. Potts and T. Walker 1771. 2 Vols. First Irish edition published in the same year as the London edition. Rare Worldcat lists only two copies of this edition and seven of the London edition. This epistolary novel has been attributed to Helen Maria Williams but this is most unlikely as she would have been ten-years-old at the date of publication. The chapter describing events at the convent has been included in Terry Castle's anthology The Literature of Lesbianism Columbia University Press 2003 though it deals with a young woman falling in love with another woman who turns out to be a man raised at the convent and unaware that he is male. Some light toning and foxing light wear to conrers front free endpaper of Vol. 2 lacking else a very good copy. unknown