(DICKENS, Charles) (WOOD, Henry) Change for the American Notes: in letters from London to New York. By an American Lady. FIRST EDITION. Wiley & Putnam, Stationers; Edinburgh: A. & C. Black; Dublin: W. Curry. 1843
Contemp. full tan calf, gilt spine, borders & dentelles, red leather label; hinges expertly repaired. Cortlandt Field Bishop bookplate. a.e.g. A good-plus copy.
¶Written in response to the negative portrayal of America in British literature, with particular reference to American Notes and Mrs Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans. "That this work will produce any impression on the English themselves the authoress has not for a moment contemplated; for when it is told of themselves they are a people singularly unmoved by - the truth". The author was not an 'American Lady', but Henry Wood, a journalist from Yorkshire.
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