Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley first edition 1899

CHOLMONDELEY (Mary). Red Pottage.

London: Edward Arnold, 1899.
 
First edition. 8vo, pp. 376 + 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue (dated October 1899). Original maroon cloth gilt, top edge gilt, uncut. Minor rubbing at spine ends, faint marks to boards, endpapers neatly reinforced; a bright, crisp copy. Bookplate of Mark Samuels Lasner to front pastedown. A very good copy. 
 
A landmark novel that ignited controversy for its candour on female desire, clerical hypocrisy, and the constrictions of provincial life. Widely praised on publication – including by Henry James – Red Pottage established Mary Cholmondeley as one of the leading novelists of the time. Red Pottage became a defining text of feminist fiction and remains the author's masterpiece.