Protecting Margot
New York, Minton, Balch, 1933.
Octavo; cloth slightly marked, flecked, bumped and rubbed with a few small areas of light discolouration; spine sunned; edges very slightly foxed; flyleaves offset; a very good copy.
Presentation copy inscribed and signed by 'Lal, otherwise Alice Grant Rosman'. Also known as Alice Trevenen Rosman (1882-1961), the author was born on in 1882 at Kapunda. "Early stories appeared in the Observer, Chronicle and Southern Cross. In 1901 she began an Adelaide branch of the Girls' Realm Guild, which published a magazine she edited, the Young Queen.A journalist, with her own page on C. J. Dennis's Gadfly in 1906-09, later she worked on the Evening Post. She was weekly columnist for the Daily Herald in 1910 and, as 'Rosna', provided Adelaide gossip and reviews for the Bulletin in 1908-11. She published in Lone Hand, the Australasian, Sydney Mail and Steele Rudd's Magazine" ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
Item #76846
Price (AUD):
$60.00