LYDIA DOROTHEA BENOLY’S COPY - Aus Schloss und Hutte

A book owned by a pioneering woman in London politics, the Mayor of Bethnal Green in London in the 1890s. Illustrated boards, browned and faded. Benoly’s ownership inscription appears opposite the title page with the date 1896 written above. Several pencil drawings on the endpapers, mostly depicting female figures in Victorian costume. Fingermarking and general grubbiness throughout, several pages near detached. We acquired this book from a descendant of Benoly whose diaries are archived by Tower Hamlets.