Ladies in Residence. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1936).
First Edition. Bip Pares dustjacket art. Prolific author's first book written while still a student at St. Catherine's College in Cambridge. "Romance and comedy go laughing hand in hand in this novel of Cambridge today. Youth is the keynote of the book, and whether his characters are basking in the river sunshine or whirling along on a merry go round; bemusing themselves at a sherry party, or delivering world shaking lectures to an audience of three tramps. Howarth wrote hundreds of short stories and radio plays, his work appeared in John Bull, Tit-Bits, Answers, Illustrated, Argosy and Chambers's Journal. [Graham Chainey; A literary History of Cambridge] Found in Anna Bogen's Women's University Fiction, 1800 - 1945. Near Fine but for top fore-edge corner of some early pages bumped, in attractive Very Good dustjacket.
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