London: John Murray.. 1908.
Inscribed by the author to her brother.
First edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. [4], 295 [1bl, 4 publisher's adverts]. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in white to upper cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Joints and edges of boards rubbed and head and foot of spine bumped. Some marking to boards. Quite heavily foxed. Front free endpaper is inscribed "Ernest Black from C.B. January 1908".
Clementina Black is best known as an activist and propagandist in the socialist, trade union and women's suffrage movements, but she made her living as a writer of political tracts and novels. Apart from the overtly political The Agitator, her novels are historical romances. Caroline is set in the eighteenth century and concerns a wealthy young woman and her suitors. Unsurprisingly, this led to critics making comparisons with Jane Austen.
