1923 JENNIFER LORN A Sedate Extravaganza Elinor Wylie EAST INDIA COMPANY 18th C

Description: JENNIFER LORN: A Sedate Extravaganza by Elinor Wylie Elinor Morton Wylie, born Elinor Morton Hoyt, was an American poet and novelist. She was the granddaughter of Henry M. Hoyt and a sister to Nancy Hoyt COMPLETE HEREIN THREE BOOKS (Gerald - Jennifer - The Prince) Illuminating episodes in the lives of THE Hon. GERALD POYNYARD and his BRIDE Publishers George H. Doran Company, 1923, first edition. This is a hardcover with dustjacket in very good condition. Tight covers and binding. The dustjacket is fragile and has just split up at the spine. No writing. 302 pages. Original tan cloth and marbled boards. FYI: "The story presents the episodic career of an aristocrat and his bride on their wanderings from England to the India of the East India Company. The time is the Eighteenth Century, a period of elaborate and brightly enameled social life". "Wylie often uses such baubles for a larger purpose. The description of Jennifer Lorn when Gerald Poynyard first sees her is typical. The girl (she is just seventeen when Poynyard decides after a single glance that he wants to marry her) is beautiful, of course. While Wylie does remark on the title character's features her "complexion of rose and cream" she devotes significant space to describing a painted representation of her. She writes of a miniature portrait that didn't exist after the French Revolution: "it seems a pity that the little ivory oval did not survive the Reign of Terror, as by all accounts it must have been not only an excellent likeness but a delicate and distinguished work of art." The picture has a counterpart in "The Byzantine Image" of the Virgin Mary that appears in the chapter of that title. Not only does one suggest the other, the "carving of great antiquity" takes the place of the one Poynyard never picked up from the Parisian painter. Echoing too the red jasper bowl Poynyard purchased for his bride but then decided not to part with, the image he takes from the hands of an expiring prince prostrate on his wife's grave is more valuable to him as "an exquisite work of art" than for the "distinct resemblance to [his] late dear wife. "Finely calibrated tension between love for beautiful things and love between actual people vibrates through much of Wylie's writing. In Jennifer Lorn, she mocks the pompous and uncaring husband for his preference, yet devotion to the decorative animates all her work. The aesthetic outlook Lorn attributes to the husband at times seems like it could be Wylie's own: "his taste was always for the fanciful and singular, though chaste and delicate, in art. " ASK QUESTIONS WE DO COMBINE ORDERS TO REDUCE SHIPPING COSTS RONI MAY COLLECTIBLES | eBay Stores Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter

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