author
Mrs. Edwin James
Known for the Victorian novel Wanderings of a Beauty, this elusive author is remembered more through the book than through surviving biographical detail. The novel explores love, ambition, and social expectations in a dramatic 19th-century setting.
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Wanderings of a beauty : A tale of the real and the ideal
by Mrs. Edwin James
About the author
Very little reliable biographical information appears to survive about this writer, who published under the name Mrs. Edwin James. The work most clearly associated with her is Wanderings of a Beauty: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, a 19th-century novel that has been preserved and made available through Project Gutenberg.
Because confirmed details about her life are scarce, it is safest to focus on the writing itself. Wanderings of a Beauty reflects Victorian interests in character, morality, emotion, and social pressure, following a gifted young woman through the tensions between real life and romantic idealism.
For listeners interested in forgotten voices from the nineteenth century, Mrs. Edwin James offers a glimpse into the period's popular fiction and the many authors whose books outlived the records of their personal lives.