No date given. Maroon cover, soiled on spine, slight staining bottom front. Binding tight. Name in ink top inside front cover. 192 pages with separation between pages 16 and 17, 1/2 in. close tear top of page 16 near spine. Otherwise, pages tight with little discoloration."Ideala" is the name of an unconventional young English woman possessed of many ideas, which she expresses freely and at length; including marriage relation, social immorality, the education of women, and the equality of men and women. Her story is a brief and familiar one: she is tempted to leave a brutal and unfaithful husband for the protection of a man she loves, but leaves instead to devote the remainder of her life to the weak and erring of her own sex. "Ideala" appears again in "The Heavenly Twins." A nice copy of this rare book.

Women, Ideas, Infidelity, Equality of Sexes