Item #2348073 The Magnetic North. Elizabeth Robins.
The Magnetic North
The Magnetic North
The Magnetic North
The Magnetic North
The Magnetic North

The Magnetic North

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2348073

First edition. Ink name and pencil gift note on front endpaper, spine leans forward slightly.

417 pp. Brown cloth, white titles, dogsled motif on top edge of front board. A novel by the American playwright, novelist, and suffragette, based on her experiences searching for her brother when he was lost in Alaska. Her novel The Convert became a powerful symbol of the women's suffrage movement after it was adapted as a play. She was friends with such literary greats as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and John Masefield. This is her second work focusing on Alaska, the first being The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, published in 1900.

Price: $75.00

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