Galatea by Margaret Rivers Larminie 1928 Chatto and Windus

Galatea
Margaret Rivers Larminie
Mrs. R. C. Tragett
London: Chatto & Windus 1928
387 pages

The binding is weakening but in acceptable condition. The pages are clean but tanning except the last few pages have a brown stain across the bottom and there is a name written in front. The cover is very scuffed and edge worn, the spine is creased. Acceptable. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: In a south-western suburb of London, accessible in twelve minutes from Victoria station, lived Mr. Edward Wynter, a retired bank clerk, with his daughter Emmeline. They had occupied their slate-roofed, semi-detached home ever since Emmeline was a little girl; and her mother had died uncomplainingly in the front bedroom where Mr. Wynter had now slept alone and much complaining for the last twenty years. Emmeline's room was at the back of the house, looking onto the small garden which she tended patiently but without great enthusiasm, for though she liked flowers she had only a moderate passion for their culture; and a sense of duty and a habit of tidiness, rather than the genuine gardener's fervour, inspired her diligence in keeping the beds and borders in good trim.   .14 (#0000848)