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MARY JANE MARRIED
UNIFORM WITH THE PRESENT VOLUME.
Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth, 2s. 6d.
MARY JANE’S MEMOIRS.
By GEORGE R. SIMS.
WITH A PHOTOGRAPHED PORTRAIT OF MARY JANE.
“A quite Defoe-like revelation. It is, in effect, a series of socialsketches drawn by a keen and humorous observer. Can be heartilyrecommended to all and sundry.”—Globe.
“A very entertaining autobiography.... Mary Jane has a faculty forobserving character, and a power of delineating its movements anddevelopment, not distantly related to those of Mr. Sims himself. MaryJane has so full a fund of exciting incident to draw upon, and sopleasant a manner of philosophizing, in her homely way, upon the ups anddowns of a servant’s life, that should she ever take the field as anovelist independently of her present sponsor, he will have a formidablerival to contend with.”—Scotsman.
“Mr. Sims has portrayed in an amusing manner the trials, woes, andtriumphs of domestic servants. There is such an amount of truthfulnessin the narrative that we can almost accept the portrait of Mary Jane asthat of the authoress of the memoirs Mr. Sims is supposed to edit, andto believe that it is really genuine.”—Metropolitan.
“There are some pages in these memoirs which it is impossible to readwithout laughing heartily, while the chapters devoted to the account ofthe Chelsea mystery are almost tragic in their intense realism....Dickens never did anything better than ‘Mrs. Three-doors-up,’ or ‘Mr.Saxon, the author, and his mother-in-law.’. The book is full ofunvarnished naturalism of a healthy, sensible, wholesome kind. It isquite the best thing Mr. Sims has yet written.”—Whitehall Review.
“Those who have not yet made Miss Buffham’s acquaintance will here findin her a very entertaining narrator of vast experiences in the way ofdomestic service.”—Daily News.
“Much of the book is broad comedy, and most laughter-provoking, andreminds one of the best of the famous ‘Mrs. Brown.’. Generally, the bookis remarkable for its Defoe-like verisimilitude, and added to this is aninexhaustible fund of humour and broad though harmless fun.”—PublicOpinion.
“Genuine amusement awaits the public in the perusal of Mary Jane’sexperiences, edited by the popular writer who has put them into bookform. This view of the world from the housemaid’s pantry is full ofshrewd observation and apparently unconscious humour, and is throughoutdiverting.”—Morning Post.
“Mary Jane’s experience of domestic service makes a very entertainingbook. She sees some strange things, and describes them in a lively,good-tempered way.”—St. James’s Gazette.
“Mr. Sims is a clever story-teller, but he is to be admired for hisphilanthropic spirit even more than for his artistic skill. Mary Jane’sobservations are shrewd and suggestive. There is a realistic tone aboutthe whole which makes these records interesting.”—CongregationalReview.
ALSO BY GEORGE R. SIMS.
Each the same size and prices.
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