Demetrius: A Tale of Modern Greece: in Three Cantos.
London: James Fraser, 1833.
Price: $900.00
About the item
First edition. [iv], 171, [1] pp. 8vo. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Spine a trifle faded, some sporadic spotting to text. Jackson, p. 572; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 319. Provenance: Jim Edwards (bookplate).
Item #305746
Presentation copy, inscribed "To Mrs. Cottrell Donner from Agnes Strickland. With kindest regards, August 8, 1862. In Memoriam." Demetrius, "An imitation of Byron … inspired by the struggle of the Greeks against the Turks" (ODNB) was Strickland's (1796-1874) final work of poetry before turning to the writing of history. With her sister Elizabeth she wrote a pioneering Lives of the Queens of England and Scotland.
