{"product_id":"the-dear-irish-girl","title":"The Dear Irish Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTYNAN, Katharine.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dear Irish Girl.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST AMERICAN EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chicago: A. C. McClurg \u0026amp; Co., 1899. Published the same year as the London Smith, Elder \u0026amp; Co. first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. 312 pp., with two pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in a darker green with a shamrock-and-scrollwork design and lettered in gilt on the spine and front board. Light spotting to the spine, else a fine and lovely copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA turn-of-the-century novel by one of the more prolific writers of the Irish literary world. Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) was a poet and novelist at the center of Dublin literary life. Across a long career, Tynan produced more than a hundred novels alongside some twenty volumes of poetry and several volumes of autobiography. \u003cem\u003eThe Dear Irish Girl\u003c\/em\u003e was her fourth novel. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHer fiction characteristically draws on Irish rural settings, Catholic faith, and the romantic and social lives of women. The McClurg American edition is uncommon outside specialist Irish collections. In its decorated green shamrock binding it is an attractive period object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-119\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tynan, Katharine","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459955085473,"sku":"TO-2026-119","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-119_01.jpg?v=1786861002","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/the-dear-irish-girl","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}