![]() ![]() ![]() Though she endured sexual harassment and serious illness in Yugoslavia, West returned twice to collect material for Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), her account of Yugoslav culture under threat of eradication by Germany" (ODNB). Her opportunity came via the newly formed British Council, which sent her as a lecturer, first to the Baltic states, and then to Yugoslavia. ![]() "After five years of marriage West was again ready for independent travel. Ffrench was the author of well-received biographies of Sarah Siddons, Mrs Gaskell, Ouida, and Florence Nightingale, together with a number of works of Victorian history including a study of the Great Exhibition, but was certainly better known in her day as a connoisseur of, and dealer in Old Master prints. Inscribed copies are far from common, this set offering a pleasing association with a recognised woman writer. First edition, first impression, inscribed on the half-title of volume I: "With much gratitude to Yvonne Ffrench from Rebecca West, 1942". ![]()
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