jane ainslie (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Gerber, Mary Jane (illustrator). Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Zustand: Good-. The complete novels in six volumes. FIRST THUS. 8vos, title pages lettered and decorated in blue and red; 16 colour plates, illustrated by Charles E. Brock, to each volume. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt (but faded), blind stamped devices and ruling to upper boards. A shabby set: all volumes with spines sunned and cocked, spine ends frayed, boards rubbed, gently soiled and bumped, some boards bowed. P&P only: long split to joint of bottom board. Persuasion only: top edge of bottom board nibbled. All volumes: shaken, endpapers toned, scatters of fox spots, Edinburgh Merchant Company Schools/ George Watson's Ladies' College gilt label to ffep of P&P, inscribed to Brodie K. Johnston for "Superiority in Gymnastics," with hand-written award inscriptions to subsequent ffeps. MP only: "John Cabell Johnston, 9 Lauderdale Street, Edinburgh" inscribed in pencil to rear pastedown. Emma only: liquid staining to rear pastedown. NA & P only: some small losses to margins. Else, clean and bright. Good- to fair: a binder's set. A very well-handled set of the 1922 Dent edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, complete in six volumes, with a pleasing Scottish educational provenance: awarded in 1922-23 to Brodie K. Johnston for "Superiority in Gymnastics, Special Kirk Mackie Prize," by Edinburgh Merchant Company Schools/ George Watson's Ladies' College and its formidable headmistress, Charlotte Ainslie. George Watson's Ladies' College was founded in George Square, Edinburgh in 1871. A former pupil, Charlotte E. Ainslie, LLA (1863-1960) was appointed Headmistress in 1902, becoming the first woman to lead the school and indeed "any prestigious Scottish secondary school" (ODNB). A talented linguist and lecturer in psychology and education, a dedicated school leader and educationalist, she "was regarded as one of the leading Scottish experts on girls' education" (ibid). The University of Edinburgh conferred a Doctorate of Laws on Ainslie in 1926, the year she retired, and in 1929 she received an OBE for services to education.