Leap-Year Frolic, A.

A Novel Of Women’s Life

Klock, M.S. A.T. A Leap-Year Frolic: A Story of Facts and Fiction…[n.p.]: E. L. Adams, 1896.

8vo.; frontispiece photograph of landscape with trees; other illustrations throughout; interior fresh and bright; preliminaries lightly, evenly sunned; front hinge tender; maroon cloth, spine stamped in black; a used copy, covers worn; previous owners stamp and library deaccession stamp on first blank.

First (and only?) edition. A comedy of manners centering around a group of girls, their education, courtship, and eventual marriage. A good example of a female novel influenced by Jane Austen and other drawing-room writers.

(#5249)

Item ID#: 5249

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