Carlyle

1904 · réf. C95843 — London: Chapman & Hall 1904. First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp vi 300. Full red leather lettered gilt at the spine with five raised bands and gilt school crest on the front board. From the library of Ray Strachey. She was born Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe 1887 Ã 1940 was a British feminist politician suffragette artist and writer.Her father was Irish barrister Benjamin ""Frank"" Conn Costelloe and her mother was art historian Mary Berenson. She was the elder of the two girls in her family. Her younger sister was the psychologist Karin Stephenwho married Adrian Stephen Virginia Woolf's younger brother She married Oliver Stracheythe elder brother of the biographer Lytton Strachey of the Bloomsbury group. He worked as a cryptographer at Bletchley in WW2. Volume one only. Prize label on the front pastedown awarded to Rachel Costelloe dated 1904. Slight rubbing and wear to boards otherwise sound near very good. Chapman & Hall, hardcover