Things Were Different

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press. Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [front hinge a little weak, otherwise a decent moderately worn reading copy; board slightly exposed along bottom edge of front cover, gilt spine lettering a little rubbed but still readable, faint bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Book Store, Long Beach, Calif.)]. First-person narrative of a girl growing to adulthood in Victorian and Edwardian England. Much of the latter half of the book is set in India, where the protagonist goes to visit a longtime friend, who is subsequently accused of murdering her abusive husband and put on trial; when she's acquitted the two women return to England and get involved in the suffrage movement. The author, described in a contemporary news account as "a collateral descendant of George Eliot," was a well-known actress on the London stage, who also appeared in America under the name "Elizabeth Kirby." .