BUCKLER, GEORGINA. — Anna Comnena: A Study.

London: Oxford University Press, 1929. 1st edition. Anna Comnena is considered to be the first woman historian. This book studies Anna as a personality, with her hopes of succession to her father Alexios, her marriage, self-pity, court life, and her feelings about aristocracy and beauty. As a character in terms of the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, and the four cardinal virtues of temperance, fortitude and wisdom, justice, and ideals of other writers. As to her education, and as to her place as a historian and as a writer. Pp.x/558, folding genealogical chart to rear has foxing, owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine. Scarce. G+.** "Anna Komnene/, Ánna Komnen?; 1 December 1083 – 1153), commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena,] was a Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. She was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I and his wife Irene Doukaina. She wrote the Alexiad, an account of her father’s reign, which is unique in that it was written by a princess about her father".(wiki).