Georgina, or, Memoirs of the Bellmour family

Georgina, or, Memoirs of the Bellmour family

London : Printed for the author, and sold by R. Baldwin ..., J. Robson ..., P. Elmsly ..., and J. Walter ..., 1787.

4 v. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

L2011F129 1787

(OCoLC)316775399

Authorship uncertain; English edition identifies the author as "a young lady" & French edtion attributes it to "l'auteur de 'Ce´cilia', (Frances Burney (1752-1840); introdution signed: "Georgina Bouverie" (a fictional personage, introduced as part of the frame of the narrative); sometimes attributes it to the novelist Ann Howell, perhaps on account of her 'Georgina, a novel' (London, 1796), though this appears to be a different work entirely.
Fictional 'memoir' in the form of letters from the author to her friend Mrs. Montague in Bengal.
Author's father, an army officer, is sent to fight in America and the family accompanies him to Boston; her brother enlists and is killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill; "to Lexington, on the fatal day, when hostilities commenced at Concord, between the Parent and her disoedient children"; the family flees to Canada and then to Boston where her mother and young brother die in a house fire, then back to England.
Bound in tree calf with gilt floral borders on covers; spine gilt with red & green morocco labels.
Bookseller's ticket at upper corner of front pastedown: "Vendu par Théophile Barrois, fils, Libraire ... à Paris."

ESTC T072360

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