Lucifer and the Child.

Mannin (Ethel)

Lucifer and the Child.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 187, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, blind-stamped vertical rule to upper board, a few small spots to cloth, slight lean to spine, ownership inscription to flyleaf, dustjacket with an attractive wood-engraved design by Norman Wilson, rear panel browned, just a touch of rubbing at extremities, slightly nicked at head of joint-folds, very good

Publication Details: Jarrolds, n.d. [circa 1945]

Notes: Scarce - the BL only on JiscHub, though also present at Bodley; the novel was reprinted a couple of times in the following few decades, and recently brought back into print by the Swan River Press. A tale of diabolic possession - engaging with both historical ideas of witchcraft and contemporary political events - in which Jenny Flower, a London slum-child, encounters a 'Dark Stranger'. It was banned on publication in Ireland.Mannin was a prolific author, whose relationships with Bertrand Russell and W.B. Yeats, and indeed her political activism, are germane to some of the themes she handles...moreScarce - the BL only on JiscHub, though also present at Bodley; the novel was reprinted a couple of times in the following few decades, and recently brought back into print by the Swan River Press. A tale of diabolic possession - engaging with both historical ideas of witchcraft and contemporary political events - in which Jenny Flower, a London slum-child, encounters a 'Dark Stranger'. It was banned on publication in Ireland.Mannin was a prolific author, whose relationships with Bertrand Russell and W.B. Yeats, and indeed her political activism, are germane to some of the themes she handles in her fiction. HIDE