Newman, Frances — Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. No later printings indicated. Purple and pink decorated paper covered boards with a purple cloth spine. Lacking dust jacket. 295 pp. Second novel from Frances Newman, written in a modernist style with subtle critiques of the American South. Frances Newman was an American novelist whose work criticized the way women were treated in the South, including limits to careers, education and other opportunities. Her anti-racist and anti-patriarchal stance raised the ire of other Southern writers in the Southern Agrarian circle, and she was excluded from the canon of Southern Renaissance writers. GOOD+ condition. Uneven toning to the covers. Some scuffing to the extremities and spine tips. Text block toned. Good/No Jacket.