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DE GENLIS, Comtesse. (Felicite). De L'Emploi Du Temps.
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1824. First and only edition. 12mo., cont. half calf, marble boards, two small gilt decorations on the spine, leather spine labels, xxxii, (264)pp. Rubber stamp on front free e/paper, cont. name on pastedown o/w a fine copy.
Mme De Genlis [1746-1830], born near Autun, was a woman of "encyclopedic information with a mania for instructing others." She "captivated" society after marrying the Comte De Genlis, and became governess to the children of the Duchesse de Chartres, teaching them about the novel while writing and producing plays for their entertainment. Her husband was the first of the Girondins beheaded in 1793 (a fate subsequently shared by her lover Philippe-Egalite.) After the death of her husband she emigrated to England and Switzerland, where she supported herself by writing. "She lived on through the Restoration... one of the great ladies of the 18th century. She was an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment and sensation, morals and history..." The present work is an ambitious treatise about about how one might best use one's "time" from an early age to one's last days, and even posthumously with the work one leaves behind.
$450
DE GENLIS, Comtesse. (Felicite). De L'Emploi Du Temps. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1824. First and only edition. 12mo., cont. half calf, marble boards, two small gilt decorations on the spine, leather spine labels, xxxii, (264)pp. Rubber stamp on front free e/paper, cont. name on pastedown o/w a fine copy.
Mme De Genlis [1746-1830], born near Autun, was a woman of "encyclopedic information with a mania for instructing others." She "captivated" society after marrying the Comte De Genlis, and became governess to the children of the Duchesse de Chartres, teaching them about the novel while writing and producing plays for their entertainment. Her husband was the first of the Girondins beheaded in 1793 (a fate subsequently shared by her lover Philippe-Egalite.) After the death of her husband she emigrated to England and Switzerland, where she supported herself by writing. "She lived on through the Restoration... one of the great ladies of the 18th century. She was an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment and sensation, morals and history..." The present work is an ambitious treatise about about how one might best use one's "time" from an early age to one's last days, and even posthumously with the work one leaves behind.
$450
