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Children of Transgression

G[eorgia] Vere Tyler

Georgia Vere Tyler, née Powell (c1858-1930) was an American novelist and screenwriter. She was the daughter-in-law of the 10th US President, John Tyler. This book was published in T. Fisher Unwin's First Novel Library but Tyler had written other novels before this. The book was first published in the USA by Henry Holt and Company in 1922. It is described as a powerful new handling of the Scarlet Letter dealing with the double moral standard for men and women.




First British edition

Bibliography code: TFU-22.8

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin

Series: First Novel Library

Year: 1922

Format: 8vo

Pages: 302

Binding: not seen

Size: 190 x 130 mm (probable)

Dust jacket: signed Blam

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 7 shillings 6 pence (from advert)

Printing history: not seen

Printed by: not seen

Notes: Thanks to the National Library of Wales for providing the image of the front panel of the dust jacket; for not discarding the jacket in 1922, as most libraries did; and for describing the jacket in the catalogue entry, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it.

Image of dust jacket

Front panel of dust jacket