Rochester, Ralph
For Love of Williamina
Dorset, Agre, 2001
First Edition. Fine in laminated card wraps (no hardback edition).
Signed by the author.
The moving true story of the last days of Williamina Belsches, first love of Sir Walter Scott - interspersed with poems. Williamina sought relief from consumption in the village of Lympstone on the Exe Estuary, taking with her her youngest child, James. A fascinating and poignant glimpse of life in Georgian times in East Devon.