Out of Due Season: A Mezzotint (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 176)

306 pp. 10 pages of publisher ads follow text. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles, silver decorations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Born Emily Frances Adeline Sergeant at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, the second daughter of Richard Sergeant and Jane (Hall), she was home schooled until the age of thirteen, when she attended school in Weston-super-Mare. Her mother was a writer of stories for youngsters that were published under the pen name 'Adeline'; Emily later adopted this name for her own writings. At fifteen a collection of Emily's poems were published in a volume that received positive notice in Weslayan periodicals. She won a scholarship to attend Queen's College, London. Her father died in 1870, and for several years she became a governess at Riverhead, Kent."