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Wreckage.

CRACKANTHORPE, Hubert. Wreckage. Seven studies. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann. 1893
Half title, 2pp cata. (Dec. 1893). Orig. brown dec. cloth with a black crosshatch and peacock feather motif, lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt; spine rubbed & dulled, sl. cocked. Ink inscription on half title 'Grace Payne - Gallney, Queens Hotel, Sea Point - July 23rd 1898'.

¶Includes seven short stories: Profiles, A Conflict of Egoisms, The Struggle for Life, Dissolving View, A Dead Woman, When Greek Meets Greek, and Embers. The Queen's Hotel was a grand hotel built in Capetown in 1887. Hubert Crackanthorpe, 1870-1896, a short story writer and novelist, was married to fellow author Leila Macdonald; their marriage was not a happy one and they both had public affairs - him with Richard Le Gallienne's sister Sissie Welch. Macdonald accused Crackanthorpe of giving her syphilis and the two were on the verge of divorce when he disappeared on the 4th of November, 1896. His body was found in the Seine six weeks later so badly decomposed that he was only identified by his family ring and a cufflink; he was 26 years old. The Crackanthorpes were an influential family and they spun the story to place the blame firmly on Leila Macdonald, claiming that he was driven to suicide after she told him she was leaving him and returning to England.
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£120


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