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Jean Webster [Alice Jane Chandler Webster]
This is one of seven novels by Jean Webster, an American writer, published for the first time in the U.K. by Hodder & Stoughton. Four of the titles have a dust jacket designed by Blampied: Patty & Priscilla, Just Patty, Jerry and this title. There was an eighth title, Much ado about Peter published by Hodder & Stoughton also in 1916, but I have not seen it.
Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American writer and author of several novels published between 1903 and 1915, most of which featured young women. Her novels promoted the idea of education for women, and her characters explicitly supported women's suffrage, a cause that she promoted in her personal life. She died in 1916 aged 39 of puerperal fever after giving birth to her first child.
This novel was entitled Jerry Junior (1907) in the USA.
First edition, thus
Bibliography code: HOD-16.17
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Series: novels of Jean Webster
Year: [1916]
Format: 16 mo
Pages: 248
Binding: blue cloth with impressed H&S logo and vertical bars; title, author and publisher in black on spine
Size: 180 x 115 mm
Dust jacket: signed Blampied, faintly above OO in title
Internal illustrations: none
Price: initially 1 shilling
Printing history: none stated
Printed by: not seen
Notes:
Image of dust jacket (click to enlarge)