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Stella Benson I Pose the author's first book

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Author: Benson, Stella
Title: I Pose
Place Published: London
Publisher:Macmillan and Co.
Date Published: 1915
Description:

(8vo) original gray boards, lettered in gilt. First Edition.

The author's first book, quite elusive. A "witty, accomplished tale of a 'militant suffragette' ..." - Blain, Grundy and Clements, The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, p. 84. Daims and Grimes 36.

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