Between Ourselves: Letters between Mothers and Daughters 1750-1982

London: Michael Joseph. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, very light bumping to top rear corner; jacket shows light handling wear, minor surface-scratching to rear panel]. "In this remarkable anthology, [the editor] has brought together private letters on a wide range of controversial subjects from over a hundred pairs of mothers and daughters, around the world and across two centuries. Some of these women are known from the history books but, in this unusual selection, such famous women as Florence Nightingale, Queen Victoria, George Sand and Vera Brittain rub shoulders with a dramatic cross-section of unknown women whose wit and courage are equally inspiring. Some have violent arguments, others share the ironies of life. All reveal an electrifying strength of character, from the nineteenth-century doctor who pulls her mother's leg about marriage to the twentieth-century mother who prepares her daughter for her death." . Near Fine in Near Fine dj.