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Title: White and Black

Author and Title: Elizabeth Ashurst Biggs. White and Black: A Story of the Southern States

First Edition: London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862. 3 volumes, post 8vo., 31s. 6d.

Summary: Upon her family’s ruin, Constance Annersly, a young Englishwoman, becomes the governess in a South Carolinian slave-owning family. LC owns a copy of this novel with the note: "Given me by the author E. Ashurst Biggs, a sister of the editor of the Englishwoman's review Caroline Ashurst Biggs" and signed Susan B. Anthony, 25 December 1902. (LP)

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References: Bodleian; BL; EC; Illinois; LC

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