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Cotes, V. Cecil Two Girls on a Barge. Chatto & Windus, 1891. 8vo, org. pictorial cloth;...
Cotes, V. Cecil
Two Girls on a Barge. Chatto & Windus, 1891. 8vo, org. pictorial cloth; forty-four illus by F.H. Townshend. First ed.
V. Cecil Cotes appears to be the pseudonym of Sara Jeannette Duncan, a Canadian newspaper journalist with Anglo-Indian roots. This book is an early and scarce account of a converted narrow boat trip, in this case undertaken by a pair of adventurous female Cambridge graduates. It is generally agreed to be authentic in tone and knowledge and describes a journey up the Grand Junction, Oxford and Coventry canals. The detail extends to a meeting with canal reformer George Smith, though for some reason the author refers to him exclusively as "Mr Gershom".
Two Girls on a Barge. Chatto & Windus, 1891. 8vo, org. pictorial cloth; forty-four illus by F.H. Townshend. First ed.
V. Cecil Cotes appears to be the pseudonym of Sara Jeannette Duncan, a Canadian newspaper journalist with Anglo-Indian roots. This book is an early and scarce account of a converted narrow boat trip, in this case undertaken by a pair of adventurous female Cambridge graduates. It is generally agreed to be authentic in tone and knowledge and describes a journey up the Grand Junction, Oxford and Coventry canals. The detail extends to a meeting with canal reformer George Smith, though for some reason the author refers to him exclusively as "Mr Gershom".
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