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Pharais : a romance of the isles

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Macleod P43 1894	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

Description

xi, 171 p. : ill. (front.); 22 cm.

Series Statement

The Regent library

Uniform Title

Regent library.

Subject

Note

"Printed ... at the Moray Press ... May 1894"--T.p.
"Seventy-five [numbered and signed] copies only of this large paper edition have been printed"--Limitation leaf.
Large paper issue, in tan boards with printed paper label. Frontispiece is blue tinted photograph of the surf on an Irish shore.
The first book published under the pseudonym "Fiona Macleod," which the author William Sharp employed to write books about Celtic spirituality, a subject which he delved into after meeting the poet W. B. Yeats at Coole Park. Sharp created for Macleod the persona of a Highland lady recluse. Not until Sharp's death did Yeats, and George Russell, with whom "Macleod" also corresponded, learn that the Macleod persona was Sharp's creation. "So seriously did Sharp take the pseudonym, so fully did he assume in 1894 the personality of 'Fiona Macleod,' that he wrote under her name in a style different from his own, sent letters for her to friends in a feminine handwriting, complained to friends who wrote to her that they never wrote to him, and eventually almost collapsed under the strain of double life."--Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Mask (1948).
Sharp was a member of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's circle.
Dedicated with letter to "E.W.R." (Edith Wingate Rinder).

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Call Number

Berg Coll Macleod P43 1894

OCLC

203516

Author

Sharp, William, 1855-1905.

Title

Pharais : a romance of the isles / by Fiona Macleod.

Imprint

Derby [Eng.] : Harpur and Murray, 1894.

Series

The Regent library

Regent library.

Indexed In:

Reginald, R. Science fiction, 09505

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy is no. 55.

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Added Author

Macleod, Fiona, 1855-1905. Signer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Macleod P43 1894