The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Boston: Little Brown, 1930.
Price: $55.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in a nice, very good dustwrapper with a couple internal repairs, and a tanned spine. A complex psychological play about Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her over-protective (and possibly incestuous) father's attempts to stifle her love life. Basis for two excellent film versions, both directed by Sidney Franklin. The first was made in 1934 with Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, and Margaret Sullivan; the second in 1957 with Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, and Virginia McKenna. Both the English and American firsts are scarce in jacket.
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