DR. Golightly
Campion, Sarah
£90.00
DR. Golightly
By Sarah Campion
"Dr. Golightly, by Sarah Campion (Peter Davies, 9/6). In the 1860's, a doctor in Glasgow. Scotland, murdered his wife and her mother by poison. Sarah Campion has used the case to build up an excellent yarn about a doctor in Sydney who is vastly troubled to three sisters. I like the quip that two of them become his mistresses and the third his master. The build-up of characters, and the skilfully drawn backgrounds put this book well above the average.” Review by The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Queensland), Sat 2 Aug 1947.
Published in London by Peter Davies, 1946. First Edition. Hardback. No dust jacket. 12mo. 19cm H x 13cm W. 312pp. Blue boards & white titles to the spine. Book condition: Used. Very Good. Spine and corners bumped; Dust stained outer page edges; No inscriptions or tears; Pages clean & tight; No foxing. Overall Condition: Very Good. Very scarce with no other copies listed at the time of cataloguing.
Mary Rose Alpers (née Coulton), born in England on 1st June 1906 was a novelist, reviewer, journalist, teacher, radio broadcaster and social activist who wrote under the pseudonym Sarah Campion. She lived a very interesting life, travelled extensively, combining teaching with writing and activism, living in South Africa, Canada, Scotland, USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Despite only living in Australia for a reasonably short time, the country in general and the outback in particular made a big impression on her, and which became the setting for some of her most critically well received novels. She died at her home in New Zealand on the 22nd July 2002. Her oral history is held by Auckland City Libraries.