Theo...Victorian Romance...a classic romantic melodrama novel with green decorative cover...typical pretty cover with artwork on front. Nice book for your bookshelf or side table; charmingly quaint shabby chic decor...a turn of the century melodramatic romance. Rare Title Theo by Frances Hodgen Burnett.
Very pretty shabby chic book with exciting story line and plot...a quaint old fashioned read.
It's such a nice book to hold and browse through as it is to read it's classic Victorian Melodramatic & romantic tale--lovely to read and lovely to add to your decor. It would be a perfect gift for the romantically inclined person in your life. France Hodgen Burnett was a prolific fiction who was extremely popular and her novels were very profitable. (see pics etc ck shop main page for more info shipping/policies/etc & ask questions if needed)
DIMENSIONS and SPECS: Approx. 7 3/8" X 4 15/16" X 1 1/4" 232 Pages Hurst & Company Publishers New York T. B. Peterson & Brothers Copyright 1877 Green color binding with cover having accents of black (title) with Paste down of Decorative picture on cover. The cover shows signs of age and wear (almost 150 years old). Book is in good condition for age but does show some wear/use/age. Binding in good condition (for age--almost 150 years old) with signs of wear--light "bumps" wear to corners and spine edges from shelf & some loss of color and light staining/foxing on pages with spine loose but pages intact--see detail pictures and be sure to view all photos. List of current popular books of the day available from publisher in back. Please see photos as they are part of the description. Use zoom feature to see greater detail.
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STORY SYNOPSIS From Good Reads: More of a melodrama than a sprightly love story.
A young lady, only nearly a woman goes to London upon invitation by her aunt. As her family is poor, she is only able to go because her sister loans her dresses from when she had gone to her aunt some years before, the visit which was ended tragically when her husband to be died the week before their wedding.
In London, Theodora becomes her aunt’s favourite. She also becomes friendly with another favourite, Denis Ogilby. She learns Mr Ogilby has been engaged to Pricilla Gower. Theo makes Priscilla’s acquaintance. But the friendship with Denis grows, and, on his part, deepens. He realises he is in a dilemma and goes to the continent, admitting his cowardice. His absence makes her realise she has feelings, too. But she determines not to be the cause of him being dishonourable.
When Mrs Throckmorton decides she must go with Theodora to Paris, Theo becomes the fame of the season.
From there, fate moves swiftly; involving sacrifice, distress, and consternation to Denis, Pricilla and Theodora.
ABOUT: Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being run by her mother, failed, and the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. Here Hodgson began to write, in order to supplement the family income, assuming full responsibility for the family upon the death of her mother, in 1870. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden. In 1872 she married Dr. Swan Burnett, with whom she had two sons, Lionel and Vivian. In 1885 she published Little Lord Fauntleroy which made her extremely popular. The marriage was dissolved in 1898. In 1900 Burnett married actor Stephen Townsend until 1902 when they got divorced. Following her great success as a novelist, playwright, and children's author, Burnett maintained homes in both England and America, traveling back and forth quite frequently. She died in her Long Island, New York home, in 1924.
Primarily remembered today for her trio of classic children's novels - Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911) - Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, in her own day, publishing romantic stories such as The Making of a Marchioness (1901) for older readers.
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