Full Title:

JANE ELLEN HARRISON: A Portrait from Letters

Publication:

London, The Merlin Press, 1959

Binding:

Medium octavo, 8¾ in. x 5⅝ in., reddish tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed. Spine: JANE | HARRISON | by | J. G. Stewart | MERLIN (see image above).

Notes:

This book was planned to be a collaboration between Jessie Stewart and Hope Mirrlees.

Jessie Stewart was Jane Harrison's favorite student in her later years, and Hope Mirrlees was of course her constant companion for the last several years of her life. After her death, Stewart and Mirrlees agreed to work together to produce a definitive biography of Jane Harrison, but Mirrlees was unable to follow through with her commitment because she found the subject too distressing. After years of back-and-forth between Stewart and HM, Jessie Stewart finally went ahead on her own, issuing this book in 1959. It is not the definitive biography either one intended, but is instead a snapshot, based primarily on letters between Harrison and Professor Gilbert Murray.

This copy is inscribed by the author on the ffep: Ena | with love | J.G.S. | August 3rd 1960