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James Hogg : The Three Perils of Woman : Edinburgh University Press 1995

James Hogg : The Three Perils of Woman : Edinburgh University Press 1995

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The Three Perils of Woman;
Or, Love, Leasing and Jealousy: A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales

By James Hoog

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 1995. Hardback book with dust jacket, 8vo, pp xliii, 466.

The Three Perils of Woman is a three volume work of one novel and two linked novellas by James Hogg. Following its original publication in 1823, it was omitted from Victorian editions of Hogg’s ‘’Collected Works’’ and re-published only in 1995.

The novellas depict events of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and the English reprisals under the Duke of Cumberland, while the novel depicts a woman with amnesia in Edinburgh during the 1820s.

CONDITION
A very good clean copy throughout and in a very good dust jacket. No writing or names. Pages very clean. Overall very good.

(Platform  : Scotland 1, Oak)

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